A depraved Idaho dad forced his 14-year-old daughter to marry her 24-year-old rapist.
Keith Strawn was sentenced to four months in prison after telling the judge: "If you get them pregnant then you marry them,” Fox 31 reported.
“While you spend those 120 day in jail, perhaps you will think about the 120 days your daughter was in a vile farce of a marriage to a rapist,” District Judge Greg Moeller said during Tuesday's sentencing, according to the station.
Last year Strawn took his teen daughter and her attacker, Aaron Seaton, to Missouri to get married. Seaton is now serving a 15-year sentence after pleading guilty to rape earlier this year.
Strawn's lawyer had asked for a light six-day sentence, saying his client might have had a "religious motivation."
(The victim) told me herself that her father asked her several times during the trip to Missouri, and even the day of the marriage, if it was something she wanted to do,” Douglas Knutson said, according to Fox 31.
Strawn had been initially charged with two felony injury to a child charges and one felony charge of accessory to rape. He pleaded guilty to felony injury to a child charge as part of a plea deal, according to the station.
"I love my daughter very much and I would never do anything to intentionally harm her or put her in harm’s way,” Strawn said, according to the station. "I made the wrong decision, and I made that decision in duress.”
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