Man whose wife gave birth aged 13 jailed for a year

Judge: 'It is not socially acceptable, it is not legally acceptable'
Man whose wife gave birth aged 13 jailed for a year

A young woman wept as her husband was jailed for a year arising out of an investigation that followed her giving birth to their first child when she was aged 13 and their second child the following year.

Since then they married when she turned 18 and had a third child together.

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