House kills legislation setting Idaho minimum marriage age (16)

https://m.legacy.com/obituaries/idahostatesman/obituary.aspx?n=steve-nelson&pid=185667895&referrer=0&preview=false

That’s my brother’s FIL. He died in prison. Both he and his son Darin were arrested after Darin’s wife found out they were both raping Darin’s daughter. Steve had been a long time pedophile. I don’t know the exact number of children he raped/molested, but I do know that it had been going on for decades and his wife ran a daycare out of their home. Both his family and church knew about it, but were under pressure to keep it “in the church”.

That sort of thing happens a lot in the Idaho LDS community. The LDS community puts a lot of pressure on members to protect each other from outside prosecution, including in cases of child rape. It’s not some big conspiracy to maximize child abuse, but rather prioritizing the reputation of the church over the health and safety of its individual constituents. It does happen, and to the extent that the majority of people in Idaho become aware of it within a fairly short span of living here.

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