In Jewish law, a father could only marry off a daughter who was still a minor as defined by Halacha. By the time the girl was 12, the age of Bas Mitzvah, she was already a Bogeress(a full adult), at which stage her father could no longer marry her off without her consent. Although the Torah made this legal, it actually seems to have looked askance at such a practice because at one point it states that such a girl’s father “has betrayed her.” I don’t know what the current Halachic status of that law is, Rov Auerbach is spot-on, and in our time only a very evil man would do it.
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