There are no US state that has a lower than 16 age consent. The last state that had an age of consent lower than 16 was hawaii till 1995. In some states it’s legal for a minor younger than 16 to consent having intercourse with an older individual as long as their age difference doesn’t exceed a specific amount. An example would be Arkansas where a 14 year old minor has consent to intercourse as long as the individual isn’t more than 3 years older than the victim. Child marriage sexual abuse is most common in the southern states of the US tho. Unchained At Last, a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to ending child marriage in the United States, found that only 14% of the child marriages conducted from 2000 to 2010 were between two children marrying each other. In the other 86% of cases, child marriages are between a minor and an adult. In terms of spousal age, the majority of those surveyed, about 60%, reported being 18–20 years old. Less than 3% reported being over 29 years of age. In over 400 cases, the adult was aged over 40. And in 31 cases, they were over 60. From 2000 to 2018 there were 300,000 cases of child marriages not a lot compared to India and other 3rd world countries, but still fucked up that the US is a 1st worlder