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The question I can't answer: is this 22 year old man dedicated to his new family by getting married, or he merely trying to escape justice for sexually abusing a 13 year old girl? If it's the latter, go head and lock him for the next 50 years, but if it's the former, I think we need to be looking out for the child more than anyone else (and by child, I meant the newborn).

One point a lot of the coverage here has missed is that both the wife and the husband are educationally subnormal (I believe the US term is "on the short bus"). This makes me think that he's not all that scheming, but on the other hand wipes out the "but some 13-year-olds are pretty mature" line of argument (which has some mileage I think in some similar cases, like that girl with the Turkish waiter).

Peter