Kentucky looks to be fixin' to keep its child-rape law in place, meaning that old guys can continue to take child brides.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bill to make 18 the legal age for marriage in Kentucky has stalled in a Senate committee amid concerns about the rights of parents to allow children to wed at a younger age, according to several lawmakers.
Known as the "child bride" bill, Senate Bill 48 was pulled off the agenda just hours before a scheduled vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the second time in two weeks.
Eileen Recktenwald, the executive director of the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs, was upset:
"This is legalized rape of children," she said. "We cannot allow that to continue in Kentucky, and I cannot believe we are even debating this in the year 2018 in the United States."
Well, it's Kentucky, after all. Tradition means a lot there.
