>>15127221Mother Defends Child Bride; N. Y. Marriage Leads to Jail
“Eunice don’t know nothing,”
Eunice was no woman but only a Utile girl.
The law roughly shattered Stanley S. Backus’ honeymon with 12-year-old Leona Elizabeth Roshia today, threatening the 19-year-old mill worker with prosecution for second degree rape.
A juvenile court ordered their separation less than 24 hours after their marriage was announced.
Townspeople were shocked when the wedding was revealed a few days after national attention had been centered on the Tennessee mountain marriage of Charlie Johns, 22, and Eunice Winstead, 9.
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