An update just because I posted on it earlier

Ga. Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Molestation

By GREG BLUESTEIN
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A 37-year-old woman who married her son's 15-year-old friend pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of statutory rape, child molestation and enticing a minor.

Before the hearing, the boy's grandmother, Judy Hayles, told The Associated Press he would seek a divorce.

Lisa Lynnette Clark was arrested in November. A few days earlier, she married the boy under a 1962 law that set the marrying age in Georgia at 16 but made an exception in the case of pregnancy. She gave birth to a baby boy earlier this month.

Clark did not speak during the hearing, but her lawyer, Daniel Sammons, said she was feeling ``anguish, depressed and loss.''

Sammons said he plans to argue the couple's marriage is a shield that protects his client from the charges.

``The law gave him permission to marry. It emancipated him,'' Sammons said. ``Under the law, he's an adult.''

Hayles said her grandson is expected to enroll in an intensive counseling program. He had previously bolted from a detention center only to be found later in Cleveland, Ohio. Clark allegedly contacted him while he was missing.

The wedding prompted Georgia lawmakers to revisit the state's marriage laws. On Thursday, the Georgia House voted 142-27 to approve a proposal that would bar teens under 16 from marrying without juvenile court permission.