Wed at age 15, she wants Oklahoma to ban child marriage

Samantha Butler isn’t smiling in her wedding photos.

She was 15 and pregnant when she says family members pressured her to marry the 25-year-old father of her child in 2010.

The wedding party drove about 230 miles from Oklahoma City to Jasper County, Missouri, where it was legal to marry at age 15 with parental permission at the time.

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