The Siders Had Three Child Brides Before The 16 Kids

Siders Ohio house of horrors child bride history — before the sixteen children were found in Vinton County, marriage records from Gallia County, Ohio, and Mason County, West Virginia, show three girls between fourteen and fifteen years old were married into the Siders family orbit over a six-year span. Judges signed. Parents signed. Nobody intervened.

The youngest was fourteen and pregnant when she married a forty-eight-year-old cousin of Gary Siders Sr. in 2002. A year later, a fifteen-year-old identified in records as Gary Siders Jr.'s own sister was married in the same county. And in 2008, Elizabeth Russell — the woma...