Poll: Is it right for a 25 year old man to get custody of a child when the mother is 17?

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This is just to get the opinion of the mass, and this is based of a case I saw on TV and I'm honestly trying to prove a point to someone how wrong this is.

A 23 year old man to goes to a party, has a few drinks, has sex with a willing 15 year old girl and gets the girl impregnated. The grandmother (guardian) of the girl doesn't turn the man in. The child is born and the man takes custody of it, who is married already with someone else. There is trouble in the marriage two years later and the married man wants to divorce his wife. The man claims that his wife is abusive and that she threatened to kill him. The man is an illegal immigrant and never called the police for help because he was afraid it would get him deported. He goes to a judge asking for custody of the kid (2 years old) but leaves it with the grandmother of the now 17 year old girl due to the domestic violence happening his household. The grandmother is taking care of the child while the 17 year old girl goes to school. The grandmother asks for custody of the kid because she feels neither the girl nor the 25 year old man deserves the kid.

Now: Is it right for the judge to give custody of the kid to the 25 year old man, make the 15 year old girl work and pay child support for the kid and grant the divorce of the man and his said abusive wife?

What do you think the judge should have done?

Jack Of All Traits · Answer

Really the man should be in jail.

menykats · Answer

In the first place, if the man was 23 years old, married, and he got a 15-year-old minor pregnant, he is guilty of the crime of statutory rape. It does not matter if the girl consented - he is still guilty and he will go to jail. The statute of limitations is very long in these cases (I am not sure it ever expires). All the grandmother or the girl would have to do now is press charges against him, and he will be arrested. 
If he is illegal, he cannot petition our courts for anything.  As an illegal, he has no standing in our court system.  If he even tried, the immigration authorities would find him and deport him back to the country he came from (after he got out of prison, of course).

? · Answer

I don't see his divorce as a factor.  Divorces happen for all reasons and all the time.

Sounds as if the judge is using the child as a pawn to make his own personal point.  Perhaps he's right.
Kids can't keep popping out kids and living off the system.  They should be held accountable, just like the dad is.

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Poll: Is it right for a 25 year old man to get custody of a child when the mother is 17?

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