Posted on 03/30/2012 3:49:41 AM PDT by EnglishCon
A five-year-old girl is thought to have become the UK's youngest victim of forced marriage.
She was one of 400 children to receive assistance from the government's Forced Marriage Unit in the last year.
The figures have emerged as the public consultation into criminalising forced marriage in England, Wales and Northern Ireland comes to an end.
Amy Cumming, joint head of the Forced Marriage Unit, said 29% of the cases it dealt with last year involved minors.
"The youngest of these was actually five years old, so there are children involved in the practice across the school age range," she said.
To protect the child, the authorities have not disclosed details of the case or where the marriage took place.
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Aye, I know. There are a lot of people who take the Lord’s name in vain the opposite way, using it as a cover for whatever they wish to do.
The story just depressed me badly - I tend to be pretty primal when it comes to kids, protect them or die trying level, so this sort of thing drives me up the wall.
In post one I didn’t mean lets not talk about Islam, I meant lets talk about it without doing the usual dismissive comments. Most people got the idea, and I thank you all for that. This is an evil thing. It happens and it should not.
I plead tiredness and rage if it wasn’t clear!
I am not sure what HAWT is but I have no respect for Islam, but I do have pity on the people imprisoned by their rulers...wait sounds like what America is doing...aw hell...
Agreed....
We have to remember that in most tyrannies its not the people who are the enemy but the government, like say North Korea.... but with Islam it’s the whole stinking ideology.
often you’ll see perverts using a “religion” to legitamize their perversions....we’ve seen it before...
the total disconnect between true Christian beliefs and values and the way people rationalize their own immorality is just so disgusting...
“but lets not slam just on Islam.”
Why? What other group of people expect marriage with a child and practice such a nasty thing world wide?
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