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Related: About this forumMissouri is a destination wedding spot for 15-year-old brides
In the dark before sunrise, high school sophomore Brittany Koerselman, belly bulging, seven months pregnant and feeling like a cow, tucked herself into the borrowed white prom dress that would be her wedding gown.
The Iowa teen didnt want to be a child bride. But the cops were coming.
She was 15, not even old enough to drive on her own. Jeremie Rook, her boyfriend and the father of her baby, was 21.
It didnt matter how infatuatedly in love she was then with everything about Jeremie his long chocolate hair, his bad-boy attitude, tongue stud and 28 tattoos. In Iowa, a 21-year-old having sex with a 15-year-old is statutory rape. The evidence was alive in her womb.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article204287484.html
Rhiannon12866
(223,396 posts)In the 21st century??
TexasTowelie
(117,236 posts)get hitched, and listen to Dolly Parton and Mickey Gilley. If the bride dominoes three times before her 18th birthday then we'll give you a $500 bonus.