From: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/na/a19686-2000may11.htm Newsweek May 11, 2000 The 'Fisherman' and His 'Bride' More on the life of Donato Dalyrmple By Catharine Skipp and Joseph Contreras When the six-month custody battle over Eli�n Gonz�lez resumed in a federal appellate court in Atlanta on Thursday morning, one person was conspicuous in his absence. Donato Dalrymple, the man who once took credit for rescuing the Cuban boy off the coast of Florida, was nowhere near the courtroom. Dalrymple, of course, figured prominently in the April 22 pre-dawn raid that wrested the six-year-old boy from his Miami relatives. As a federal agent brandishes an assault rifle, the little boy was captured in a photo holding onto Dalrymple, whose image is frozen in a snapshot of open-mouthed fear. Overnight, Dalrymple's image was splashed across television screens, magazine covers and newspaper front pages. Then came the awkward questions about his past. It turned out that Eli�n's real savior wasn't Dalrymple at all; the hero of the tale was actually his cousin Sam Ciancio, who dove into the ocean to save Eli�n. Dalrymple, who had been commonly identified as a fisherman, in fact had never fished prior to that November morning. He has also faced questions about his marital past. Dalrymple may be reluctant to discuss the topic for good reason. Newsweek has learned that in 1984, he walked down the aisle with a 14-year-old Broward County girl who was two years shy of the minimum marital age under Florida law. Dalyrmple initially told Newsweek that he had only taken out a marriage license and claimed he called off the nuptials when he discovered the bride's age. "She was five feet eight inches, 135 pounds and she looked 24 years old," he says. Now, Dalyrmple says he took part in the wedding ceremony after being "threatened" by the bride's mother, but insists that the marriage had no legal standing because it was never formally registered with the Florida government. The bride and her parents admit that she altered her birth certificate to make her appear 16 years old and supplied false information to authorities on the wedding license application form. The bride's mother denies threatening Dalyrmple and the family maintains that he was fully informed of her age. The ill-fated marriage of Donato Anthony Dalrymple and Virginia Andrea Hando had its origins in the neighborhood church where the two worshipped. A devout Christian, Dalrymple had just turned 24 when he saw Ginny Hando singing in the choir of the Apostolic Lighthouse Church of Pompano Beach, Fla. in the spring of 1984. >From the very outset, the girl's parents, Virginia and Donald Hando, took a shine to the young man, whom his friends called "Dee Dee." "He didn't drink, he didn't do drugs, he didn't smoke, he was a good kid," recalls Ginny's mother. By Mrs. Hando's own account, she always knew the sweethearts had arrived back home because they "would sit in the driveway praying. We were very impressed with his walk with God." So impressed, in fact, that they gave Ginny their consent to marry Dalyrmple and helped her conceal her age because she was just 14. (Parental consent doesn't override Florida's minimum age requirement of 16). Newsweek obtained a stamped marriage record issued by the clerk of Broward County, dated November 10, 1984 and signed by a Pentecostal clergyman named John T. Baker confirming that Dalrymple married Ginny Hando. The bride says three hundred relatives and well-wishers attended the ceremony. Afterwards, the couple left for a Caribbean honeymoon cruise-accompanied by Dalrymple's parents-in-law. The marriage lasted barely a month. Ginny Hando and her parents say that Dalrymple mentally and physically abused her during the cruise. Ginny Hando, now 30, is still angry when discussing Dalrymple. "I was very young and he put me through a lot of hell," she says. Dalrymple denies ever having abused Ginny Hando. The newlyweds called it quits for good over the Christmas holidays of 1984. The couple never sent in the marriage certificate to Broward County and Dalrymple tore up the document. Without such a filing, the marriage was never recognized by the state. Today, the tattered remains of the certificate are in Ginny Hando's possession. 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