Man Accused of Selling Daughter For Cash, Beer, and Meat

Police have arrested a California man for allegedly trying to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat. The police became aware of this shining example of fatherhood after he went to them to complain that the buyer had failed to make payment as promised. He was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking.

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Humm... not funny.

[Anonymous Coward]

As a father, this is pretty sad. Poor girl.

Re:Humm... not funny.

[Anonymous Coward]

What d'ya mean? It's better than the old days when you had to pay to get rid of a daughter. This guys collecting.

Re:Humm... not funny.

[Mr. Firewall]

Nothing sad about it at all; this is pretty normal for his culture. He didn't even realize that it's illegal in this country.

Before I judge the dad, I'm going to need to know

[unassimilatible]

What kind of beer it was.

Seriously...

[el3mentary]

This guy is the Wurst father I've ever heard of...

Re:Seriously...

[Anonymous Coward]

I have observed what you have preformed in this location.

Re:Seriously...

[Anonymous Coward]

I have percieved that which you have undertaken in that area

Re:Before I judge the dad, I'm going to need to kn

[laejoh]

Belgian beer, obviously!

Re:Before I judge the dad, I'm going to need to kn

[Anonymous Coward]

What kind of beer it was.

Budweiser.

Old practice.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wasn't this a very old practice? like in mid-western cultures when you actually had to buy your bride, usually by working for your future father-in-law a couple years to pay for your bride.

In that case

[unassimilatible]

He is a very bad man.

Spoken like a true multiculturalist

[unassimilatible]

i.e., lunatic. So by that insane troll logic, women who endure female circumcision are not "sad" because hacking off a woman's clitoris is part of a cultural tradition. Cultures which persecute homosexuals (like Iran, where eve teenage homsexuals are hung) are not sad, it is just a cultural difference. Cultures in which women have no political or legal rights and are essentially property are not sad, they are just different but equal cultures! No, I'm sure the girl was more than happy to be forced to fuck a stranger.

Bullshit! Some cultures are ass-backwards and barbaric, and I judge this by "progressive" standards that we would use in this country and any civilized nation. Funny how libs love to compare America to other countries for guidance (healthcare, war on terror, death penalty, etc), but we can't judge other cultures by the same standard?

What nonsense. You come to this country, or any other, you should learn and respect its culture and laws. Ignore them at your own peril. Assimilate or stay home. Being in America is not a right. This is why we should massively expand the naturalization test to include laws and traditions and mores, not just how many stars are on the flag.

Re:Spoken like a true multiculturalist

[Mr. Firewall]

So by that insane troll logic, women who endure female circumcision are not "sad" because hacking off a woman's clitoris is part of a cultural tradition.

I never said that. Please leave, and take your straw man with you.

If you had botherd to RTFA in the link I provided, you would have seen that this story has been highly sensationalized. In reality, it's a rather mundane case of a man who reneged on paying his dowry.

Re:Spoken like a true multiculturalist

[unassimilatible]

I never said that.

You defended a horrific practice and violation of American law based the cultural practice of another country.

Please leave

I posted in this thread a full day before you did. I was here first. You leave and take your moral relativism with you.

and take your straw man with you.

No, a strawman misstates your argument. Your argument was that we should respect archaic, barbaric cultural traditions like that of arranged marriages and dowry and that children involved in said arrangements are not "sad.". Did I misrepresent your argument? If not, then 1) you are a lunatic and 2) do we respect all cultures barbaric practices, or just this one? Seems to me I got your premise correct, and the logical outcome of it. Where did I go wrong? Where did I misrepresent your argument?

If you had botherd to RTFA in the link I provided, you would have seen that this story has been highly sensationalized. In reality, it's a rather mundane case of a man who reneged on paying his dowry.

Regardless of what a liberal newspaper like SJMN quotes this illegal alien's shameless defense attorney as saying, in America, that is called human trafficking and pedophilia. Of a man's own daughter. This is a very serious case in America, at least with those who do not recognize ass-backward culture as a defense to felonies.

Re:Spoken like a true multiculturalist

[Mr. Firewall]

No, a strawman misstates your argument.

Which is exactly what you did.

This ends our discussion.

Re:Spoken like a true multiculturalist

[aeroswift]

Strawman. Or should I say, men, because I spy multiple in that lengthy rant. Before you accuse me of defending an "ass-backward culture", let me make it clear that I do NOT support it. I find it cruel, I find it pitiable, but there's no need for you to go around insulting other cultures you scarcely understand (which is obvious in your clumsily phrased argument padded with various versions of "you are a lunatic").

A ha!

[unassimilatible]

Typical liberal.

As I just told my GF the other day as she argued the Gaza conflict with libs on Facebook, when you argue with a lib, sooner or later they either 1) call you a name or 2) walk away indignantly.

Take your ball and go home when someone is beating you in an argument. So typical.