Man charged with statutory rape in ‘marriage’ to 14-year-old girl.

The Kansas City Star ^ | Nov. 09, 2009 | CHRISTINE VENDEL

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Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said.

Mosby, 23, of Kansas City didn’t legally wed his 14-year-old bride, however, because Missouri law won’t allow it without a judge’s order. Police said she was pressured into the union because her mother and stepfather thought she was going to be sexually active with a boy her age.

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Police said the girl’s stepfather and mother became concerned that she was going to become sexually active, so the stepfather allegedly approached Mosby about marrying the girl. The girl was “strongly encouraged” to wed Mosby, police said.

The stepfather, Mosby and the teen had several “sit downs” before the stepfather arranged for a religious ceremony on Aug. 4 at her home, not far from the stepfather’s mosque.

Two members of the mosque attended, but the bride “was not allowed to be present,” court records said. She waited in her room upstairs. Her stepfather allegedly came upstairs after the ceremony, which consisted of prayers and a contract signing, to announce that she was married.

[bustinchops]

Yes, all true. If one boy called another a “sissy” in our neighborhood, a fight generally ensued. Even we girls didn’t like to be called “sissy” or “sissy girl”, although we didn’t has physical fights over it since we were being raised with feminine dignity, something also lost today. Now music is written about “ho’s” and these young women seem to like it fine. When I was growing up, the worst thing you could call a girl was a whore. Calling a girl such a thing brought a visit from her father to the father of the perpetrator of the insult. That’s when it was expected that there was a father.