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Calif. Dad Charged With Selling Daughter Pleads Not Guilty
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Published: February 12, 2009
SALINAS, Calif. - A California man has pleaded not guilty to aiding statutory rape in an alleged arrangement to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, beer and meat.
The prosecutor says 36-year-old Marcelino de Jesus Martinez entered pleas Wednesday to procuring a child for lewd acts, aiding and abetting statutory rape and child endangerment.
Trial is set for April 6. Martinez is in jail on an immigration hold. He lives in Greenfield, a farming community on California's central coast.
Prosecutors say Martinez and the family of Margarito de Jesus Galindo had negotiated a marriage and dowry contract.
Authorities learned of the deal after Martinez went to police to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made as promised.
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