The truly dumb always astounds me, but the case of this 37-year-old woman in Georgia, who just married her 15-year-old lover (and is 7 months pregnant by same…) is one of the best examples I’ve seen in a while.
Yes, the woman must be abysmally stupid, but all by itself, that wouldn’t qualify the story as astounding. What makes the situation unique is the Georgia law which allowed them to wed.
It seems that a person can marry at any age there, without parental consent, if the bride-to-be is pregnant. Thus, an adult (no matter how old) could get a hormonally hyper-charged 14-year-old pregnant in Georgia, and then marry her – thereby avoiding a child-molestation charge.
Of course, since they’ve charged the woman with a bunch of sex crimes, I gather they only meant to provide the loophole to men.
Nice, huh? The whole situation reminds me of “Deliverance”.