Tuesday might be my last day in Fresno and as a Fresno State Student. Those of you who still follow and I don’t see by then, I’m sorry that I couldn’t leave on my own terms but if I am lucky, I will be back in the fall for my last chance to stay in Fresno. I just want to know if I come back, would I have any support for me to stay in Fresno because I wish to prove my parents wrong and show them that I am not being taken advantage of but will always have people backing me. My goal in life now is to leave Fresno State as a graduate. Please help me achieve this because I have not been able to do it alone.
Thomas Webb Sackett
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Police: Man sold 14-year-old daughter into marriage for cash, beer
Posted: 12:45 PM ET
By Ashley Broughton
CNN
(CNN) — A California man sold his 14-year-old daughter to an 18-year-old man for cash, beer and meat — then called police when the prospective bridegroom didn’t live up to his end of the deal, authorities said Tuesday.
Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, 36, of Greenfield, California, was arrested Monday and booked into the Monterey County Jail, Greenfield police said in a statement. He faces felony charges of receiving money for causing a person to cohabitate, police said.
Martinez had arranged through a third party to have his daughter marry the older teenager, identified by authorities as Margarito de Jesus Galindo, of Gonzales, California. In exchange, Galindo was to pay Martinez $16,000 and provide him with 160 cases of beer; 100 cases of soda; 50 cases of Gatorade; six cases of meat and two cases of wine, Greenfield Police Chief Joe Grebmeier told CNN.