Man allegedly tried to trade child for beer
A man has been arrested for allegedly arranging for his 14-year-old daughter to marry a neighbor in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat, police said.
Authorities in Greenfield, a farming community on California’s Central Coast, said they learned of the deal after Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, 36, asked them for help getting his daughter back after payment wasn’t made.
Martinez, a member of the indigenous Mexican Trique community, was arrested Sunday. He will be arraigned today on felony charges of procuring a child under age 16 for lewd and lascivious acts and statutory rape, prosecutors say.
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