Judge Sentences 20 Year Old To Marry His 19 year old Girlfriend - Daily Mail

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Washington Post – A Texas man was sentenced to marry his 19-year-old girlfriend, write down Bible verses and attend counseling by a judge as punishment for punching another man in the jaw, according to local television station KLTV. The court case stemmed from a February altercation between Josten Bundy, 20, and the ex-partner of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Jaynes. He told the TV station he hit the man twice. During his sentencing, Judge Randall Rogers told Bundy he would have to marry his girlfriend within 30 days as a condition of his probation. Bundy said that Rogers gave him the option to sit behind bars for 15 days. Bundy asked if he could call his employers to tell them he was going to jail, but the judge declined. Bundy and Jaynes said they feared Bundy would lose his job, so they applied for their marriage license and scheduled a date with the justice of the peace. “It just felt like we weren’t going to be able to have the wedding we wanted,” Jaynes told KLTV. “It was just going to be kind of pieced together, I didn’t even have a white dress.”

First thing’s first, upset of the century this happened in America. You see a headline like that and you 100% are convinced we’re heading to the Middle East or Asia or something. Nope. Right here. In the good old US of A. Where the Constitution, the Eighth Amendment, plain and simple states “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Tar and feather this poor bastard. Chop his hands off. Give him the chair. But for fucks sake, your honor, dont sentence him to marriage. Thats like the death penalty but first painful, slow torture first. Get married and write out Bible verses – thats just inhumane. Would rather get stoned to death or something like they do over in Saudi Arabia than get married when I was 20.