child brides in australia, page-10

"How is permission obtained?"

Errr - Political Correctness (over-tolerance), it appears, overrides certain rules.

Unfortunately have to reference 2 recent articles from Sydney Newspapers that expose more details, but this then opens up the risk for this thread to be banished elsewhere because exposure of the root cause of the problem is either not deemed of General importance to the wider community, or is a too hot potato:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hotline-plan-to-help-hidden-child-brides-in-sydney-20140301-33sqm.html

Hotline plan to help hidden child brides in Sydney

March 3, 2014, Emma Partridge, Crime Reporter

"There are at least 60 child brides living in south-western Sydney, and many more girls are destined to be forced into under-age marriage, according to the head of a women's health centre.

Eman Sharobeem works with teenage girls in Fairfield, Liverpool and Cabramatta. Many of them have been married in the past three years.

She said that forced and under-age marriages would not stop until immigrants received education the moment that they stepped onto Australian soil. If they were not educated about Australian values and laws, new arrivals would continue to be taught by already settled communities who encouraged the illegal and archaic practice, she said...

...Dr Sharobeem said immigrants came to Australia with zero information, but were quickly taught not to allow their women to integrate.

''I've heard men with my own ears shouting [to new arrivals]: 'This country is about supporting women. It is our rule as head of the family to keep the women away from the bad influence of the country and not let them learn English.' ''

One woman recently came to her in tears and said her husband, who was still awaiting clearance in the detention centre, threatened to kill her if she learnt English or went out of the house without him.

''This is happening in Australia. We are not in the suburbs of Afghanistan - this is the suburbs of Sydney.''

A mother and father came into her office and proudly spoke of how they had just celebrated the wedding of their daughter in Iraq.

Dr Sharobeem had said to them, ''Fantastic! Where is she?'' They pointed to a petite and silent 14-year-old girl sitting next to them.

''I looked at the child in the room and I froze,'' Dr Sharobeem said.

The child bride was two months pregnant and in need of a doctor..."

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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/shame-of-our-child-brides-court-hears-how-woman-was-raped-and-beaten-as-its-revealed-hundreds-are-forced-into-arranged-and-unregistered-marriages-across-nsw/story-fni0cx12-1226824176047

Shame of our child brides: Court hears how woman was raped and beaten as it’s revealed hundreds are forced into arranged and unregistered marriages across NSW

Exclusive by Padraic Murphy, The Daily Telegraph, February 12, 2014 1:56PM

"A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was forced into an Islamic marriage with a western Sydney drug gang member who raped and beat her and later physically abused their daughter.

Details of the now 25-year old victim’s ordeal surfaced in the Federal Circuit Court where the victim was fighting to have the man banned from seeing their daughter.

So appalling was the woman's life of abuse, which included claims that her father told her she could only leave her marriage “in a coffin”, that Judge Joseph Harman made an unprecedented public appeal in his judgment for authorities to act.

The story came to light after the Daily Telegraph reported the arrest of a man who had been living with a 12-year-old as his wife in Sydney.

The imam who married the pair, Riaz Tasawar, was yesterday arrested by police..."

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Meanwhile, now we know the truth, let's welcome the debate on this forum about the local pedophile/scum, Rolf Harris.

Pedophilia by individuals - those perpetrators should receive the harshest possible punishment...

...Pedophilia sanctioned within an ethno/religious community - well...what can one say...if we are unable to say, than how can we act?