A 12 Year Old Mother Should be Able to be a 12 Year Old Bride

What DNA Revealed About a 12-Year-Old Mother
DNAngels Org | 31 Dec. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1BaZc2qaAE

Was the considerably older man already married to someone else?

If not, under other jurisidictions, he could have repaired for what he did by marrying her, unless she preferred the age peer.

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Jan van

@janvan4424

There is NO WAY to repair rape. The crime has already been comitted. Being married to the rapist would be a horrible thing for the victim to endure. Would you want to be married to someone who committed a crime against you?

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@janvan4424 Being married would be horrible in some cases, not others.

Have you heard of "friend rape"? Means, they were already kind of romantic, or romanticism vs friend zone, so it wouldn't be like letting a complete stranger into one's life after he made a very rude intrusion.

And I think, statistically, that more rapes are committed from people you know than from strangers.

The Mosaic law was allowing for such reparation in some cases, and so were Medieval Catholic customs (and same reparation requirement was also attached to simply seducing a virgin, see El Alcalde de Zalamea, for an early post-Medieval example of such jurisprudence).

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DNAngels Org

@dnangelsorg2544

@hglundahl, we do not agree with a 12 year old victim marrying the person who harmed her.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@dnangelsorg2544 In this case, you do not agree with a father marrying a mother of the same child, then. I thought you were in favour of healing.

However, you are not accuser, judge or prison guardian, you are if anything at all closer to the coroner (or do you say "judge of investigation" in the US) if there is a case.

My observation was about jurisdictions, not about your view on the matter. However, it is likely views like yours have contributed to the raised age limits for marriage.

Jan van

@hglundahl we are in favor of the mother healing, but making her marry someone who raped her and stole her innocence will traumatize her even further and won't remotely bring healing

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@janvan4424 I said nothing about making her marry the person who committed what might have been just statutory rape in your jurisdiction.

I said, in a different jurisdiction it would have been an option for her (but an obligation for him), unless he was already married, consecrated celibate or close relative.

@janvan4424 I note you don't seem to be in favour of the perpetrator healing.