Ohio lawmakers refuse to protect girls from nightmarish marriages. Men in Ohio can legally import 17-year-old child brides from any country around the world, a legal form of sex trafficking.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2026/05/21/ohio-child-bride-marriage-17-senate-bill-341/90178596007/
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I’m sorry, they can “import” them?
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pedophilia is getting so normalized in this world and how can this inhumane shit be legal?
From the article. All credit goes to Unchained At Last, who are fighting to ban child marriage across the world.
>Some 5,063 teens were entered into marriage in Ohio between 2000 and 2024, according to marriage certificate data from the state health department analyzed by [Unchained At Last,](https://www.unchainedatlast.org/child-marriage-in-ohio/) a nonprofit that leads a national movement to end forced and child marriage.
>A 17-year-old girl from Ohio can be taken overseas and forced to marry a lucky man who gets not only a teen bride but also a spousal visa and path to citizenship.
>Additionally, men in Ohio can legally import 17-year-old child brides from any country around the world, a legal form of sex trafficking.
>Further, marriage before age 18, even for the most mature 17-year-old, creates a nightmarish legal trap, simply because minors have limited legal rights until the day they turn 18.
>This is why all marriage before age 18 is recognized globally as forced marriage, which, in turn, is recognized as [modern slavery](https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_575479.pdf).
>The U.S. State Department also calls marriage before age 18 a [human rights abuse](https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/254904.pdf), due to the devastating, lifelong repercussions it produces for girls. It undermines [nearly every aspect](https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00341-4/fulltext) of girls’ lives, from their health to their education and economic opportunities to their physical safety.
>SB341, sponsored by Republican Sen. Louis Blessing and Democratic Sen. Bill DeMora, would solve all these problems, yet it would cost nothing. It has a $0 price tag. And it would harm no one, except creepy men who prey on teenage girls.
Disgusting
Another example of modern slavery
Only 17 states have banned child marriage in the United States. Those states are
1. Delaware (2018)
2. New Jersey (2018)
3. Pennsylvania (2020)
4. Minnesota (2020),
5. Rhode Island (2021)
6. New York (2021)
7. Massachusetts (2022)
8. Vermont (2023)
9. Connecticut (2023)
10. Michigan (2023)
11. Washington (2024)
12. Virginia (2024)
13. New Hampshire (2024)
14. Maine (2025)
15. Oregon (2025)
16. Missouri (2025)
17. Oklahoma (2026)
That means 33 other states haven’t banned child marriage. That’s literally insane to think that 2/3 of the states allow child marriages. That’s crazy.
Republicans will claim whenever a drag queen simply walks out the house to “think of the children”, while child marriages are happening now. Just gross.
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There’s only 12 states in the US where the age of sexual consent is 18.
It’s 16 or 17 in most states. including some VERY blue states.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States)
Conservatives and child rape, what an iconic duo
That’s because Republicans support pedophelia
Evil people giving themselves permission to do evil things.
The U.S. government in action, for over 236 years.
The way of the wasicu must go.
This is a bipartisan bill with broad support. Why aren’t they specifically naming those in the state senate who are blocking it?
That’s because we are now, and probably have been for a while ruled by pedophiles.
Wow Republicans are now sex trafficking girls into Ohio, I bet all of those voting for this are Christian.
Oh dang !! Trump county in the making 😂,
Are there no federal laws on sex trafficking?
Land of the free…eh!
Just to be clear here. Ohio Lawmakers = Republicans
No. Not “Ohio lawmakers.” Ohio Republicans. You know, the ones who help protect the Epstein Class.
All conservatives are pedophiles.
What a self own. “Men in Ohio are so undesirable that they have to import sex slaves with zero life experience to fuck them.”
The party of pedophiles.
Ohio? You ok? I thought you were too moderate for child brides.
Are you ____ kidding me? No girl or woman should EVER be “imported” for ANYTHING!! I don’t care if she is 17 or 71. Women are not cargo, property, inventory, slaves, or equity. What I just disseminated from this was that Ohio approves of human trafficking. If I’m not mistaken Ohio is also a state in which when a woman who isn’t of legal age is marred to a man, he becomes her legal guardian and custodian. Which when I hear that I understand it as him becoming her parent which in fact makes him a pfile. The whole thing is disgraceful and disgusting.
Haven’t we sold Ohio yet??
Child marriage remains legal in 33 states.
Very in keeping with the home state of Gym Jordan.
MAGA United States of pedophile of Americans. Where if you ware white you can kill, dehumanize, marry a child, eat people and traffic humans if your skin color and bank has the right color.
Isnt ohio the state where is legal to have babies with your cousin?
What kinda sick human trade is this?
Disgusting.
Melania
I used to work with a guy that ordered a bride from Russia
As soon as she got here she ran away from that creep
He crashed out hard, started acting like a bigger ass than usual at work and got himself fired
100% chance he’s a I.C.E. agent now
Fuck you, Daryl. May you never have an ounce of happiness
Republicans the party of pedos
Let me guess, we’re talking Republican lawmakers who love them some pedophilia.