11 year-old girl forced to marry her rapist! (pizzagate)

submitted ago by garouwarrior

New York Times article about 11 yr old Sherry Johnson in Florida forced to marry her 20-year old rapist by her **PARENTS **and church:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html?_r=2

The article also details information about child marriages in America generally. Often, it is the child's family that wants the marriage.

It provides a graph of minors who married in 38 states from 2000 to 2010. The three states with highest numbers were Texas, Florida and Kentucky.

Another graph provides the youngest age allowed to be legally wed for all 50 states. More than half the states have no minimum age!

Child marriage in the US seems to be a way to avoid statutory rape laws.

From the article:

Globally, a girl marries before the age of 15 every seven seconds, according to estimates by Save the Children. As in Africa and Asia, the reasons for such marriages in the U.S. are often cultural or religious; the American families follow conservative Christian, Muslim or Jewish traditions, and judges sometimes feel that they shouldn’t intrude on other cultures.

Also, more interesting information about her background. In terms of relevance to Pizza/pedogate, she was not the only church member to be victimized by multiple pastors at her church:

Johnson, the former 11-year-old unwitting bride who is now fighting for Florida to set a minimum marriage age (there is none now), says that her family attended a conservative Pentecostal church and that other girls of a similar age periodically also married. Often, she says, this was to hide rapes by church elders.

She says she was raped by both a minister and a parishioner and gave birth to a daughter when she was just 10 (the birth certificate confirms that). A judge approved the marriage to end the rape investigation, she says, telling her, “What we want is for you to get married.”

Another black eye for organized religion.

Also interesting in that the NYT enabled comments for the article, for which there are now over 1200 of them.

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DonKeyhote ago

  1. NYT not a legitimate source, least of all on Christians, of course they opened comments to shit on them.
  2. It is a fact that we have no right to change other cultures, which is why they shouldnt be here
  3. The idea that this type of thing happens often among Chrisitan americans is laughable. The old "growing trend" consisting of five guys total trick.

garouwarrior ago

Even though all mainstream media is controlled, some of what they print or say is true. Even the BBC puts out stories on pedophilia, despite shamelessly trying to coverup the Jimmy Savile scandal.

And many of the comments do seem to be bashing Christians, conservatives and Republicans lol...

Which is why I have mentioned in the past why conservative Christians can NOT be the face of this investigation. It's because the testimonies and statistics in this article will be used to discredit the Pizzagate community, whose major demographic are Evangelicals who voted for Trump. And the sad thing is that they not wrong for the most part.

Psalm100 ago

As I wrote to someone else, a great many Christians are kind, God-fearing people, and Christians also on the whole support the social view that pedo-exploitation is a crime. That's not the case with secular humanists, who dominate the media. They work on both sides of the issue. The New York Times published this article, but they also help in the effort to normalize pedo-exploitation in other ways. For example, it printed glowing reviews of a 2015 film called "Diary of a Teenage Girl," which was about a 15-year-old girl who was sexually exploited by her mother's boyfriend who is 25 years older. Reviewers at the New York Times and other outlets, though, loved that the film didn't actually portray the girl as victimized, but as "sexually empowered," and the man as not really that much of a rapist:

"What you call Monroe, other than an expletive, depends on what you call a man having sex with a 15-year-old girl. “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” takes place in 1976, when the age of consent in California was 18 (it still is), but it unfolds in an anything-goes milieu in which Monroe might be branded more of an opportunist than a creep..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/movies/review-in-the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-a-hormone-bomb-waiting-to-explode.html

garouwarrior ago

Great response.

That NYT review of a very controversial subject matter was rather nonchalant, yikes...