Folks, I hate to tell you this, but this is happening here in the USA too. OK, not the marriage, but the underage sex, the babies having babies, little kids quitting school to become mommies. This isn't a Bulgarian thing, it isn't a third-world thing. It is the reality of urban life in the USA.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf

Elliot

Please re read my comment, and don't put your own spin on it.

"I must add that he is a 19 year old which in my mind makes him a boy and he probably has the same mentality that she does. So, I view him as just a kid. After all he is a male and it takes males awhile to actually grow up (just a little humor in there). "

Never once did I say that he does not know the ramifications of his actions. I simply said that he probably has the same mentality as she does, the eleven year old girl. But since you want to put words in my mouth I will address what you said. Think back to when you were 19, 20, or even 21. You did stupid things, and I bet a lot of those stupid things you thought at the time were not that serious, but when you look back now you see the what if scenario. What if I didn't do this? What if the thing that I did ended up with horrible consequences? Unfortunately, 19 year olds do not have the same mentality as older people, even when they scream at the top of their lungs that they are mature for their age.
Furthermore, I am in school right now studying international cultures. People must understand that people do things differently in different parts of the country. It is accepted in their region. That is the model for their lives.
Stuff like that does not bother me because their parents and society allow it, and let's wait and see what their justice system decides because they will probably allow it as well.

What I am more concerned about is a monster like that 29 year old man who is not 19, lives here so he has a different model to follow, that raped, tortured, and killed that innocent little five year old who is not eleven. Let's get angry about the stuff that is going on in our own society and stop worrying about stuff that people don't worry about in their own.

As a brit I have to inform you, The News of the World newspaper is not seen as a riviting read, with the only factual article being what the sports results were the day before

Can anyone tell me how much these people got paid in bulgaria for their story to be printed, mmm, I wonder if £50 $100 would be a lot of money to them?

People from america, never believe a word you read in our newspapers, most brits don't

Or Canada!

Thanks Phlax for the heads up ;)