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TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
Wed Mar 21, 2018, 04:25 AM Mar 2018

Missouri 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 didn’t 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 didn’t 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

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Missouri is a destination wedding spot for 15-year-old brides (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP
Good Grief! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2018 #1
Y'all come down to Branson, TexasTowelie Mar 2018 #2
I cannot believe that no one's stepped up to address this! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2018 #3
Oh my this is sick TEB Mar 2018 #4

TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
2. Y'all come down to Branson,
Wed Mar 21, 2018, 04:38 AM
Mar 2018

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.

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