Texas Man Arrested For Alleged Pre-Marital Sex With 16-Year-Old Wife
The marriage was legal, but the alleged sex that took place before it was not, supposedly. A 41-year-old Houston-area drama teacher is accused of having had sex with his wife before they were married.
Ilich Guardiola, who also works as a voice actor in Japanese animations, was pulled over in a traffic stop in the Houston suburb of Spring Valley last month and later questioned about his relationship with the teen riding with him, police said.
Shortly after the incident, Guardiola married the teenager, who has not been identified, in Las Vegas with the approval of her mother, who witnessed the wedding.
Police said there is circumstantial evidence that the two engaged in a sexual relationship prior to legal marriage.
“The marriage is absolutely legal. We received a copy of the marriage certificate,” said Gary Finkelman of the Spring Valley Police Department.
Guardiola was arrested on Thursday at his Houston-area apartment for violating a Texas law that forbids sex with a child, regardless of the child’s consent. A child is defined as a person under 17 years of age.
Carla Akins May 10th, 2014 at 7:32 pm
Clearly he’s creepy. I think it’s wrong for a 41 year old man to be intimate with a 16 year old girl, but it’s not a case of coercion, he’s not her therapist or her school teacher. I’d prefer to be defending her right to have sex with a 17 year old boy, but this is overreach by law enforcement. They are now married with the consent of her parent. I don’t have great hopes for this relationship but for it to become a legal issue now – is pointless.