Girl Commits Suicide After Being Forced to Marry Rapist

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/girl-commits-suicide-after-being-forced-to-marry-rapist.html

by Ximena Ramirez
March 13, 2012
9:27 pm

Amina, a young 16-year-old Moroccan girl, was forced to marry her rapist, a man ten years her senior. When her family filed charges against the man for raping their daughter a judge decided that instead of punishing the man, the pair should marry.

How is that even possible? Well there is a law in Morocco which allows a perpetrator to receive immunity from criminal charges if he marries the minor in question.

Such was the case for Amina. According to The Delta World this type of marriage is a tradition common in rural areas “to safeguard the honour of the young and ‘resolve’ the damage caused after the violation.”

FULL story at link.

[undeterred]

1. Sounds very Old World.

But everything old becomes new eventually.

[BiggJawn]

2. Probably be the Law of the Land in Murka in about 25 years...n/t

[rfranklin]

3. We are so much more civilized than that...we just force her to have the rapist's child...

Hail Santorum!

[Ship of Fools]

4. Yep, after a vaginal probe

and doc's omission of information about the health of the fetus because of moral objections
re abortion!

[bullwinkle428]

5. Coming soon, to a Santorum-led America near you.

[lunatica]

6. That could never happen here

[georgebaikal]

7. Fitting Meme

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