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Teen Marriage and Child Abuse Case | Texas News
A shocking child abuse case in Ohio centers on a 15-year-old girl, Elizabeth Siders, who married an 18-year-old in 2008 — a union permitted under West Virginia’s then-loose marriage laws, which required only parental consent. Now, as four people face charges, attorneys are demanding deeper oversight in such cases, questioning how such a vulnerable arrangement could have been approved. West Virginia later tightened its laws in 2023, raising the minimum age to 16 and adding stricter age-gap limits — but the investigation remains open, with officials still unsure whether Elizabeth herself was a…
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