Our impuissant legal system

‘Can’t do this in Australia’: Mum’s betrayal

A woman who coerced her daughter into an arranged marriage that ended with the husband murdering the bride could be jailed for the act, a court has heard.

Sanika Muhammad Jan, 48 of Shepparton, faced the Melbourne County Court on Tuesday.

In May, a jury found Jan guilty of coercing her daughter Ruqia Haidari, 21, into marrying Perth man Mohammad Ali Halimi in November 2019.

A criminal case of coercion into marriage is unprecedented in Australia because of relatively new federal laws banning the practice and the underground nature of such arrangements.

On Tuesday, the court was told Jan was wed in an arrangement when she was about 13 years old in Afghanistan. She had five children and never went to school.
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https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/can-t-do-this-in-australia-mum-s-betrayal/ar-BB1qsw9A?ocid=BingNewsSerp

The comedy to come out of this is that had Mrs Jan been prepared to sign a court document she would have been able to serve most of her sentence at home, To acknowledge that such a document exists is a joke. Why should some one who consigned her own child to a death sentence be given a discount. The alleged magistrate should have added 15 years to her sentence.