A British woman has married an American man serving 20 years behind bars for rape.
Gemma Morgan, 31, tied the knot with Leonel Vasquez, 31, inside a Virginia prison on December 29 – less than two years after they began exchanging messages online, New York Post reports.
“I still get the butterflies every time he calls or his name pops up on a message. Love can blossom no matter where you are,” the Scotland-based bride told South West News Service of her husband, who has been incarcerated since 2011.
Morgan claimed she doesn’t care about her man’s criminal conviction as she’s “not marrying his past”.
The pair first came into contact in early 2021 after Morgan began taking online Spanis...
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