(In biblical days that was often how men go their wives)

In 2008, a youth pastor named Jason Greathouse, then 24, moved into the Alabama home of a family with a 14-year-old girl. Greathouse eventually raped that girl and impregnated her. At the urging of her parents, the story went, the two of them got married. It didn’t go well — shocker — and they divorced a year later.

In 2020, that victim, then in her late 20s and more aware of what happened to her when she was a child, filed rape charges against Greathouse. He faced up to 20 years in prison.