Oklahoma Ends Child Marriage, becoming the 17th state.

“Oklahoma has horrible rates as far as child sex trafficking, these kids getting married at an earlier age, that is a part of sex trafficking, when an older male marries a younger female, that leads to issues with sex trafficking and prostitution, that’s a practice we need to see stopped in Oklahoma,” said Joe Dorman, CEO of the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy.

SB 504 became law without the governor’s signature on Wednesday.”