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The Associated Press
Thursday, February 12, 2009; 8:41 AM

SALINAS, Calif. -- A California man has pleaded not guilty to aiding statutory rape in an alleged arrangement to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, beer and meat.

The prosecutor says 36-year-old Marcelino de Jesus Martinez entered pleas Wednesday to procuring a child for lewd acts, aiding and abetting statutory rape and child endangerment.

Trial is set for April 6. Martinez is in jail on an immigration hold. He lives in Greenfield, a farming community on California's central coast.

Prosecutors say Martinez and the family of Margarito de Jesus Galindo had negotiated a marriage and dowry contract.


Authorities learned of the deal after Martinez went to police to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made as promised.


Ndipe's comment: In pre-colonial times in Nigeria, wouldnt this act be sanctioned by the society at large?

No, it's a hypothetical question. And believe me, if I were in that situation, I wont even come onboard to get feedback from strangers. I would take the bulls by the horn and relocate home in a heartbeat, while living off the proceeds of my investments from time to time. Not everybody would agree with my decision, but you bet that a lot of folks who have been laid off will definitely not relocate back home, even if they had more seven figures in their retirement account.

This is hypothetical. You are in your mid thirties, happily married with two young kids and a comfortable salary in the USA when the unexpected happens. You and your wife are laid off from the job market. Days stretch into weeks, and then months with your savings dwindling and your morale slowly receding. Your spouse is pestering you to relocate back home with prospects of a better opportunity back home. You check your 401k, regularly and realize that your total asset, combined with your wife hovers close to a million dollars. A tidy sum that could go a long way in Nigeria, despite the inflation.

What do you do? Cash the money and resettle in Nigeria, or stay put in the USA and keep hoping for a new job.

Wedding bells rang this weekend for terminally ill 9-year-old
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With only a few weeks left of her life, 9-year-old Jayla Cooper fulfilled a dream as friends and family watched on in bittersweet delight.
Wedding bells rang this past Sunday for a rather uncommon bride and groom, 9-year-old Jayla and her now husband, 7-year-old Jose Griggs. But this union of children isn't due to some twisted religious rite.

Jayla cooper was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago and according to doctors, has come to the end of her path. Childhood leukemia, depending upon the type, has improved with treatment over the years but there is still a rate of recidivation either due to malignancies or later recurrences.

For two years, Jayla spent her home away from home at the Children's Medical Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders in Dallas, TX where she met her future husband and leukemia patient, Jose when he was 5. So after two years of sharing a bond that most people will never understand, the parents of both children gave Jayla her dying wish. (see video clip in the news link here)

Following their vows of "friendship" forever, Jayla explained in a local Dallas/Ft.Worth news article:


"I love him, and it was just really important to me. I had fun dancing with my dad and with him and my granny."

On the biggest day of her life, the little girl continued to show others how to live life to the fullest, smiling brightly as she walked beside her father, Jerrod Cooper, down the isle adorned in a lovely white gown. For the time, every person in the room seemed to have set aside any feeling other than joy for the couple, grasping tightly to the moments that remain.

As for the 7-year-old groom, his mother said in the article that "he's having a hard time dealing with this" because he is aware that she is dying and he doesn't want her to "go." Jose is recovering from his leukemia.

So in an effort to fulfill as much of her child's dreams as possible, Lisa Cooper continues to give her daughter all that she can so that her last days here on earth are more than hospital beds and distressed family members.

The happy couple spent their honey moon at Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor family waterpark in Grapevine, TX complete with waterslides, kiddie spa and arcade. A honeymooners paradise, for a couple of kids.


http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/267906

http://www.gracepoints.com/

Very very interesting webpage.

Oh please, there are better examples in the USA, than Naija. Even then, if some of the girls were to choose between working as a live in maid with paid board and lodgings in Nigeria and the USA, they will definitely go with the USA. The underlying reason is that by law, they are protected from abuse, and they would not have to work 24/7 without overtime. True, there are some families that cater to their maids adequately, but sincerely, how many of them exist back home? How many families who employ their maids pay them overtime or give them 2 days off per week to attend to their needs. Nna, as I have lived in the USA, I have come to the conclusion that house maid/houseboy is a modern day slavery. For once, I dont think I'd be able to (if my parents had died when I was young) to work seven days a week in a household, washing their clothes, sweeping, cooking, dusting and all those duties while the children are sitting around idly watching television or engaging in fun activities. Not fair at all, not fair. You simply cant justify slavery because of pittance you are providing them, like board and lodgings. You are in Houston, right? I guess you may have heard of an African in the east coast who was arrested by the cops for abusing their maid. Or, an Egyptian who was rescued from slavery in Los Angeles. So, these servitude is accepted in our society, to the West, it is synomynous with slavery.

Nna, lets start from the grassroot

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I will say none, gosh aren't we in the era where slavery should be abolished And some of them even had the guts to say they prefer children under the age of 10 [/quote]Nna, see am. Ignorance is never bliss!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-10441.0.html

These celebrities (who are 100 percent black) are just three/four/five generations away from Africa, so why would anybody be surprised that they look like an African?
What are they expected to look like?

Jakumo:
Where most people see a career buffoon, some would see a potential rap artist.

Just imagine this legislator wearing a backwards-facing baseball cap, baggy trousers pulled halfway down to expose a foot of white underwear, huge sneakers on his feet, and massive gold chains around his neck.

Now picture the learned orator delivering another of his rambling, meaningless speeches, but with a beat added, complete with DJ scratches, and tell me Nigeria doesn't have the makings of another MAJOR star here.

We'll see how many of you continue to laugh after I sign this man up, and fly him out to fill venues coast to coast accross America. Africans have always been slow to recognize and appreciate national treasures, and the ridicule of this gentleman is but another example of that short-sightedness.

Birds of the same feathers flock together.

But honestly, there are stories of maids who are witches and wreaked havoc in the family of their oga. That one no be lie.

For the fellow who called their housemaid a 'retard', why didnt you simply send her home? At first, I was way too ignorant to realize that housemaid in Nigeria is slavery, until I moved to the USA and thought about it. Look at it this way. You are an employee, you work for your boss for 40 hours a week, and get paid at the end of the week with 2 days off. But a maid back home works seven days a week for peanuts. That is unacceptable and a gross service of injustice. Tell me, who would willingly accept that? If I am to move back home, believe me, this is something that I would want the government to tackle from the roots. I blame poverty and ignorance, just yesterday, I was reading an old edition of Tell Magazine. On the cover was a picture(s?) of little kids hawking their goods on the streets, and I did point that out earlier that it's child abuse.

Who is more famous, Patrick or Kris Okotie?

Is Chime still the governor? I thought I read somewhere that he was impeached.

I saw a documentary on Television about Salma Hayek breastfeeding another baby and I dont know if I gasped or not, but I do know that to some women, it's definitely a NO No for them to accept a woman breastfeeding their child. At the same time, it was a touching and generous gesture on her part to have nursed the baby, because the mother, (I think) had no milk in her breast and the child may have been starving. Perhaps, most mothers may not accept the generousity of strangers, for fear that the child may become attached to that stranger. I maybe wrong . . .

How about you? (Please, this is a mature discussion, not a discourse to elicit childish and immature innuendos.)

blacksta:
Please be advised that this image was not doctored in any form.

We just cant make assumptions from the picture and the notoriety of the Nigerian police that they were demanding bribe from the female driver.

OLAADEGBU:
@[b]debosky, Ndipe, Finally and others who think God could have used the evolution process to create the earth.[/b]

There are serious consequences when we consider the possibility that God used evolutionary processes to create over millions of years, and one of them is that the Word of God will no longer be authoritative, the other is that the character of our merciful God will questioned as it is today.

If we say that we are Christians and accept the New Testament doctrines that Jesus Christ and Paul preached but reject the book of Genesis as literal history, read what Thomas Huxley, who was called Darwin's bulldog had to say:
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[li]" the melancholy fact remains, that the position they have taken up is hopelessly untenable." [/li]
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Thomas Huxley went on to lambast those Christian compromisers and gave them a lesson of their lives.  This I am sad to say, is the reason why these atheists, who are seeking for excuses not to be accountable to God, will want to give more authority to their fallible philosophies since Christians are beginning to doubt their own source of authority.  He pointed out that for the so called theologians to be consistent they had to give up the Bible totally and that compromise is not acceptable.

The battle, really, is not one of the young earth versus old earth or billions of years versus 6 days, or creation versus evolution;  The real battle is the authority of the Word of  God vs. man's fallible opinions. 

We Christians believe in the bodily Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ because of the words of Scripture ("according to Scriptures.", we believe in the 6 literal days of creation because of the words of Scripture ("In six days the Lord made . . . ".  "Then God said . . ."  His Word is the evidence of how and when God created, and His Word is incredibly clear.  The real issue is one of authority, is God's Word the authority, or is it man's word?

Read the link below to find out the reasons why God could not have used  evolution to create, and see why the belief in millions of years of evolution not only contradicts the clear teaching of Genesis and the rest of the Scripture but also questions the character of God.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/couldnt-god-have-used-evolution

Ola, how many times have I told you that I dont believe in evolution? Never will believe in it, as long as the Good Lord keeps me alive, Amen.

Until you can show me where it is written in the Holy Bible the age of the world, then I am not inclined to believe that the world is 6,400 years old. Ok, let me ask you this question. Its generally believed that Jesus Christ died 2000 years ago, right? And I do know that He died and Resurrected again. The time frame, however, I am not sure, and that automatically does not bar me from inheriting His Salvation. However, if you are gonna believe that this blessed event occured two thousand years ago, then how can you explain the time frame between Methuselah (who died when he was over 900 years old) to King David, to Rehoboam, to the captivity, I mean, would you honestly say that the time lapse may not have been 1000 years between Methuselah and Jeremiah? I dont know for sure.

OLAADEGBU:
@Ndipe, debosky and any other theistic evolutionists who believe in the day-age theory, which is more deadly than the theory of evolution itself.
Romans 3:4 declares: "Let God be true, and every man a liar."  One with God is a majority and it does not matter how many of you that gather together to believe in a lie, God will always remain true to His Word.  In every instance where someone has not accepted the "days" of creation to be ordinary days, they have not allowed the words of Scripture to speak to them in context, as the language requires for communication.  They have been influenced by ideas from outside of Scriptures.

God's people need to realise that the Word of God is something very special.  It is not just the words of men.  As Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 2:13 "You received it not as the word of men, but as it is, truly the word of God."  Proverbs 30:5-6 states that "every word of God is pure . . . Do not add to His words, lest He reprove you and you be found a liar."  The Bible cannot be treated as just some great literary work.  We need to "tremble at His Word" (Isa.6:5) and not forget that:

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work - 2 Tim.3:16-17

In the original autographs, every word and every letter in the Bible is there because God put it there.  Let us listen to God speaking to us through His Word and not arrogantly think we can tell God what He really means!

I will suggest you read the article in the link below if you are still doubting whether God could really create everything in 6 days, that's if you have not already made up your minds and don't want to be confused by the truths of God's Words, figures and facts.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/could-god-have-created-in-six-days

I dont believe in evolution at all!

OLAADEGBU:
@debosky and all those who think that they are "Christians", listen and read what hard core evolutionists think about their theories.

William Provine's quote sums up all the modern evolutionary biology.  "Let me summarize my views on what modern evolutionary biology tells us loud and clear . . .  There are no gods, no purpose, no goal-directed forces of any kind." 
William Provine(Professor, Cornell University), Origins Research, Vol.16:1/2(1994),p.9, quoted in Technical Journal, vol.10:1(1996),p.22.

This shows that the foundation of the religion of evolutionary theory is based on materialism, and thereby it is the ideology that there is no creator God.  This is so because they want to counter Christian beliefs and to escape from accountability to a creator God, they reckon that if there is no law there will be no law giver that they will be accountable to, so they thereby go on to form their own theories that have no scientific backing and this explains why their theories have remained just a theory, conjecture or hypothesis and have not been able to progress into a scientific law because it is unworkable, irrational, unreasonable, illogical and unscientific.

God has all the answers because He was there to observe has given us the answers not only in creation but in His written Holy Word, The Bible.  The answers as to who created, what was created, how it was created, when it was created and how long it took for Him to create.  It is either you choose to believe Him or to believe man's fallible theories that changes by the day.

[list]
[li]1.  Who created?------------God[/li]
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[li]2.  What was created?  ----All things[/li]
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[li]3.  How was it created?--- By His Power[/li]
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[li]4.  When was it created?—In the beginning[/li]
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[li]5.  How long did it take to
     Create?------------------- 6 days[/li]
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Some top and highly qualified Hebrew scolars, who are called lexigraphers wrote in the most widely recognised Hebrew lexicons and dictionaries, published in the 20th century says that the creation days written in the book of Genesis are literal days.

Below is a partial list of scientists who believe in the Bible's account of creation as is recorded in the Bible and through their professional fields have come to the scientific conclusion that confirms the Bible's account:

[list]
[li]Danny Faulkner         Ph.D.  Astronomy
John Byl                     Ph.D.  Astronomy
Tom Greene               Ph.D.  Astronomy
James Dire                 Ph.D.  Astrophysics
Dave Harrison            Ph.D. Astrophysics
Steven Boyd               Ph.D. Hebraic and Cognitive Studies
Floyd Nolen Jones     Th.D., Ph.D.  Author of Chronology of the Old Testament
Herb Hirt                    Ph.D.  Biblical Exposition
Robert Cole                Ph.D.  Semitic languages
Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon
Georgia Purdon          Ph.D. Molecular Genetics
Duane Gish                Ph.D. Biochemistry
David Menton            Ph.D. Cell Biology
Donald Chittick          Ph.D.  Physical Chemistry
Tom Greene              Ph.D.  Astronomy
Jason Lisle                Ph.D.  Astrophysics
Russell Humphreys   Ph.D  Physics
Don DeYoung            Ph.D.  Physics
Terry Mortenson       Ph.D. History of Geology
John baumgardner   Ph.D. Geophysics
Bob Compton            Ph.D. Physiology, DVM
Andy McIntosh         Ph.D.  Combustion Theory
John Johnson           Ph.D. Mathematics
Tommy Mitchel          M.D.
Andrew Snelling       Ph.D. Geology
Emil Silvestre           Ph.D. Geology
Esther Su                 Ph.D. Biochemistry
David DeWitt           Ph.D. Neuroscience[/li]
[/list]

And above all is the One who knows it all with absolute certainty and has recorded it with His own caligraphy:

God Almighty in the  The Ten Commandments

"For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."  Exodus 20:11

“For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers:  all things were created by Him, and for him.”  Colossians 1:16

Which is the strong foundation that makes the faith of those who choose to believe in Him, based on rock solid evidence.

At your own time read the following passages if you believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac or Jacob.

(Exodus 20:11;God created all things by Jesus Christ. Gen.1:1; Colossians1:15-18,20; John 1:3; Ephesians 3:9; Heb.1:1-2; 11:3)

Totally base, who are you to decide who is a Christian or who isnt? Let God be the Judge!. That there are some practising Christians on this board who hold divergent views to your discourse does not necessarily mean that that they are wrong. Let God be the Judge. You have your views, they also have their own views. In the long run, I'd like to think that even those who disagree with you, all believe in the Salvation of God through Jesus Christ.

Yes, it's very RUDE infact, you should be repartriated to your homeland. Why should you speak your language openly, instead of covering your mouth and muttering it in very muffling tones? Only English Language needs to be spoken PUBLICLY. Our native language should be spoken BEHIND closed doors, and even then, mixed with English Language.

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