Oh, you've GOT to be kidding....

[CourtClerk]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Disbelief

GREENFIELD, Calif. — Police have arrested a Greenfield man for allegedly arranging to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat.

Police say they only learned of the deal after 36-year-old Marcelino de Jesus Mart-inez went to them to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made as promised.

Mart-inez was arrested Sunday on suspicion of human trafficking.

Officers also arrested 18-year-old Margarito de Jesus Galindo on suspicion of statutory rape. Investigators believe the girl went willingly with Galindo, but she's under California's legal age of consent and can't legally marry.

Police say arranged marriages involving underage girls have become a problem in this small Central Coast farming community.


So this man wanted the police to reposess his daughter because he couldn't have a bbq on Saturday????

 

[mommyof4]

So this man wanted the police to reposess his daughter because he couldn't have a bbq on Saturday????

No, no, no....

He wanted the police to reposess his daughter because he didn't have his beer so that he could properly couch surf.

An especially egregious breach of contract.

 

[>Charlotte<]

I'd have sold my first husband for a Corona and some baby back ribs.

 

[CourtClerk]

I'd have sold my first husband for a Corona and some baby back ribs.

Ribs by themselves or would you get a side too?

 

[>Charlotte<]

Ribs by themselves or would you get a side too?

Well, he was handy for painting and changing the oil in the car, so it would probably be worth adding some fries. But he also tried to boink everything that walked upright, so it wouldn't be chili cheese fries or anything like that.

 

[cyjeff]

I agree... the real question here is what kind of meat.