Women Allegedly Try to Force Man to Wed
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Four women were briefly detained for allegedly seizing a man they were trying to force to marry a former girlfriend he impregnated, police said Thursday.
The 22-year-old man told police the 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, her mother, sister and aunt approached him Tuesday outside the food processing plant where he works and forced him into a taxi.
The man told local television stations that the four women then took him to their house and told him they wouldn't release him until he married his former girlfriend, who is four months pregnant.
His relatives told police he had been kidnapped, and the four women were detained when they tried to collect his birth certificate and $150 to pay for the civil marriage. They were released Wednesday after prosecutors found 'no elements' to charge them with kidnapping, said Fernando Martinez, a spokesman for the attorney general's office of Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located.
Under Nuevo Leon state law, statutory rape charges apply when women between 13 and 18 years of age are 'seduced' or 'tricked' into sex. But no formal complaint had been filed.
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The 22-year-old man told police the 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, her mother, sister and aunt approached him Tuesday outside the food processing plant where he works and forced him into a taxi.
The man told local television stations that the four women then took him to their house and told him they wouldn't release him until he married his former girlfriend, who is four months pregnant.
His relatives told police he had been kidnapped, and the four women were detained when they tried to collect his birth certificate and $150 to pay for the civil marriage. They were released Wednesday after prosecutors found 'no elements' to charge them with kidnapping, said Fernando Martinez, a spokesman for the attorney general's office of Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located.
Under Nuevo Leon state law, statutory rape charges apply when women between 13 and 18 years of age are 'seduced' or 'tricked' into sex. But no formal complaint had been filed.
© 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
