GUILTY GA - Groom, 15, Pregnant Bride, 37, add up to trouble!

[Rayemonde]

March 2006 - Lisa Clark pleads guilty to statutory rape and gets 9 months in prison:

Lisa Lynette Clark, 37, was sentenced to a total of 10 years by Hall County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Oliver, although the majority of that sentence could be served on probation. Clark also was given credit for the two months she already has served in jail.

Clark is to have no contact with her teenage husband until he turns 17, at which point it will be up to him to continue their relationship. Clark also was banished from the Northeastern Judicial Circuit (Hall and Dawson Counties)...

Oliver sentenced Clark as a first-time offender because she has no prior criminal record. The judge warned Clark that statutory rape carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. That sentence could be imposed if she violates the conditions of her probation.

"No contact means no contact," the judge snapped at Clark.

http://gainesvillelegals.com/news/stories/20060316/localnews/77228.shtml

 

[Rayemonde]

March 2008:

Lisa Lynette Clark spent nearly three years in jail after she married her son's 15-year-old friend and then helped her young groom flee the state.

Now 39 years old and out of prison, Clark and her teen lover, Adrian Gonzalez, have reunited and say their love is stronger than ever...

"I went to a court-ordered associate boot camp and that got me on track pretty good. I learned a lot from that. I was also in group homes," said Gonzalez, who was on probation in 2006 for a burglary charge when he fled the state of Georgia with Clark's help...

The couple still face some huge challenges, including a bitter custody battle over their 2-year-old son.

Clark gave birth to the baby in prison and handed over temporary custody to her ex-boss. Clark and Gonzalez say they were betrayed by the woman, who promised to return their son when Clark got out of jail but has refused to do so.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4345650

 

[Rayemonde]

May 2008:

Their November 2005 nuptials forced Georgia lawmakers to tighten the state's marriage laws and left Clark Gonzalez with a lengthy rap sheet.

She pleaded guilty to helping her young husband, Adrian Gonzalez, escape from a group home in Atlanta. While serving a two-year sentence for her crime, she penned a book full of lurid details of their taboo relationship. And she reunited with him when she was released.

In the latest chapter of the saga, she showed up in court last week with her husband to fight for custody of their 2-year-old boy...

She was sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to statutory rape, and a judge tacked on a two-year term after she pleaded guilty to helping her husband escape from a group home near Atlanta.

Lawmakers in 2006 quickly moved to tighten the loophole. Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill that bans teens under 16 from tying the knot. The new law allows 16- or 17-year-olds to wed with the approval of a parent or guardian and a probate judge.

http://accesswdun.com/article/2008/5/209868


December 2010:

A Georgia judge denied custody to a woman who had a child with a 15-year-old boy, but the now-married couple can have increased visitation, family members said.

Lisa Lynette Clark, 42, who now goes by her married name of Lisa Gonzalez, and her now-20-year-old husband, Adrian Gonzalez, had asked a county judge in Ellijay, Ga., for custody of their 4-year-old son, Skye Cobain Gonzalez, who lives with a legal guardian.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/09/Judge-nixes-custody-request-of-teen-wife/90151291937387/

 

[Miranda]

From Rayemonde's link:

Is this for real?

Georgia law that allows pregnant couples to marry regardless of age and without consent.

But yet if you're pregnant, you can get married — and it doesn't matter if you're 9 years old or 10 years old

I think I like her...

"I don't want to see her. I don't want to hear her. I don't even like to see her ugly mugshot on TV

Hayles, who wants to get the marriage annulled, said Clark's attorney has said Clark intends to stay married to Hayles' grandson.

That will happen, the grandmother said, "when I'm laid out and candle lit."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pregnant-woman-37-marries-teen/

 

[Rayemonde]

Feb 2011:

Clark and Gonzalez have a son Skye, who was conceived during their illicit affair and was born in prison when Clark was serving a year long sentence for statutory rape.

Skye is now living in a foster home and the couple is fighting to gain custody of him.

The couple wants to raise him with their second child, 2-year-old daughter Star. Star was born after Clark got out of prison and Gonzalez was 18-years-old.

Clark now works as a transcriber, while Gonzalez does the housework and looks after their daughter.

They share their Georgia home with none other than Clark's son, who first introduced his mom to Gonzalez.

"I couldn't be mad when she was happy about it," says Clark's oldest son.

http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/1945-after-illicit-affair-couple-faces-custody-battle

 

[Rayemonde]

Feb 2015:

Skeptics said it wouldn't last. The Georgia mom and the teenage boy toy she went to prison for having a baby with. Well, guess what, the skeptics were right.

Lisa Lynette Clark has called it quits with her lover-turned-husband, Adrian Gonzalez as INSIDE EDITION’s Les Trent discovered.

She told Trent, “It was doomed from the beginning, I mean, that's a given, everybody knew that.”

He asked Gonzalez, “How did it get to this point? I have video of you professing your undying love for this woman.”

Gonzalez said, “It wasn't exactly the ideal marriage.”

http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/9660-shocking-marriage-falls-apart

 

[Rayemonde]

May 2015:

A woman who began dating a friend of her son’s when he was just 14 says she ‘deeply regrets’ the relationship.
Lisa Clark, from Atlanta, Georgia, became emotional while speaking about her romance with the teenager, with whom she went on to marry and have two children.
‘He was just there. He was very persistent and it just happened,’ she said during an exclusive interview on This Morning.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/15/meet-...m-legally-a-year-later-5199316/#ixzz3y0PIjGeF

 

[al66pine]

May 2015:
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/15/meet-...m-legally-a-year-later-5199316/#ixzz3y0PIjGeF

Thank you very much Raymonde for updating this & many other threads.

I'll withhold comment about the (now-ex) couple and just note article's choice of words.
"‘I was coming in drunk just about every night and he would listen,’ she said.Although she wasn’t attracted to him at first, the pair began seeing each other and Lisa, then 37, soon fell pregnant." bbm

Fell pregnant?
Coming home late in the dark in the hall, she tripped over something and fell pregnant?
I know, I know apparently used more in UK (like ^ publication) than USA. An idiom
Reminds me of a woman from the deep south visiting our Midwestern business and her remark about "fixin' to have a baby." My co-worker oblivious to her bulging tummy, asked "What?" She said "Ah'm fixing to have a baby in a few months," and he asked "And you need to repair it already?" Awkward silence.


OK, sorry, back on topic, please.