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by Coito ergo sum » Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:01 pm
A 16-year-old Moroccan girl has committed suicide after a judge ordered her to marry her rapist, according to Moroccan media reports.
Last year Amina’s parents filed charges against their daughter’s rapist, a man 10 years older than her but it was only recently that a judge in the northern city of Tangier decided that instead of punishing him, the two must be married.
The court’s decision to forcibly marry Amina to her rapist was supposed to “resolve” the damage of sexual violation against her, but it led to more suffering in the unwelcoming home of her rapist/husband’s family.
Traumatized by the painful experience of rape, Amina decided to end her life by consuming rat poison in the house of her husband’s family, according to the Moroccan daily al-Massae.
According to the newspaper, this type of forced marriage is rooted in local rural traditions to safeguard the honor of girls who are raped.
Moroccan penal code exempts a rapist from punishment if he agrees to marry his victim.
Feminists have long demanded an amendment to this article.
Hafida Elbaz, director of the Women’s Solidarity Association told a-Massae that the article provides an opportunity for a perpetrator to avoid punishment.
The story has widely spread on Twitter and on Facebook with many in Morocco demanding action against the judge who issued the ruling.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2 ... 00577.html
Sickening.
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by JimC » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:18 am
Barbaric scum, using evil religious bullshit to justify their own entrenched positions...
Nothing a bullet to the brain wouldn't cure...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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by FBM » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:19 am
Indeed. I hear ya. That poor man. Sentenced to a lifetime of marriage over a single rape.

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by mistermack » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:35 pm
She should have chopped his dick off in his sleep.
But did she kill herself, or did they force the rat poison on her?
I suppose it was the will of Allah. Nice chap.
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