[ April 26, 2024 ]
The number of young girls who have been seeking assistance in getting out of their forced marriages — a mark of the Muslim community — in the United Kingdom has risen to an all-time high, according to data from a new study.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children reported its members now provide three times the amount of counseling for these young girls as they did just five years ago.
If a child or young person you know is worried about forced marriage, remind them that #Childline is always here on 0800 1111 or online. pic.twitter.com/NDfF6B94Jn
— NSPCC (@NSPCC) July 31, 2017
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And the victims are as young as 13.
Breitbart has more:
Some of the victims are as young as 13 and they are frequently threatened with violence and emotional blackmail, pressuring them to marry older men they may have never met.
Childline, the 24-hour counselling hotline for children provided by the NSPCC, has experienced more children than ever are calling with fears over forced marriage. The charity said it delivered 12 per cent more counselling sessions in 2016/17 than in 2015/16.
Forced marriage can carry a prison sentence of up to seven years in the UK, but as of December 31, 2016, figures suggest there has been just one conviction in Britain.
The charity said some families use the long school summer holidays to pull children out of Britain and marry them off abroad to strangers.
The full scale of the abuse may be unknown, however, as some girls do not speak out because they are “worried about family honour and being isolated by their communities” and fear their “relatives would be punished if they sought help.”
One 18-year-old girl who contacted Childline said: “My parents are talking about taking me back to my home country to get married, but I don’t want to. They get violent when I don’t do what they want.
“I want to leave home but they’d never agree to it. I just want to live a normal teenage life, but they won’t let me.”
NSPCC Chief Executive Peter Wanless commented: “Forcing a child to marry shows a complete lack of regard for their feelings, thoughts or ambitions. We must be clear that, regardless of cultural expectations, this is a crime and an abuse of human rights.”
Childline founder and president Dame Esther Rantzen added: “Young people can feel helpless because sometimes those near to them aren’t interested in their happiness or welfare.
“It’s desperately important that those are frightened or feel that they have no one to turn to get in touch with Childline.”
There has been a similar failure to prosecute perpetrators of female genital mutilation (FGM) – another crime largely associated with migrant communities.
Despite the practice being illegal in the UK for 31 years, and more than 5,000 new cases recorded in England last year, not a single successful prosecution has been made.
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12 Comments
6 years ago
Yeah, they’ll get right on it, just like they have with FGM and domestic violence prosecutions.
It isn’t Britainistan, it’s Cuckistan.
6 years ago
Disgusting marrying your daughter off to an old man or highest bidder … These people are still in the seventh century so why does this surprise us at all.
It’s great there is a contact number for help and a way online to reach out but I gurantee most fear for their lives and won’t risk being honor killed .
These vile people do not belong in the west at all!
6 years ago
Reply to
gia
Amen, this little one and others had better not ask a Democrat or some gaggle of leftist progressives to help. The latter would say, as they do about FGM, oh, it’s a cultural issue, so that’s just fine and dandy. What the hell is our judiciary, our leaders doing for these abused children? Sfa, they don’t want to offend the Cult of Perversity.
Indeed, Gia, these children are fearful for their lives by this debauched cult, Islam.
Amen, they will not assimilate, plus they detest America as much as Obama and his Islamist disciples.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
It makes me sick. These girls have very little hope for a happy future.
Look at the cases of very young girls dying on their wedding night.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/10/dead-yemeni-child-bride-tied-raped-says-mom.html
6 years ago
Reply to
gia
It makes me sick, too, Gia. These perverts are permitted to do this in America and Europe, too.
Where are the self-righteous feminists? Oops, they don’t give a you-know unless it affect them. Oops, plus, these weenettes don’t want to criticize the Cult of Perversity. Take care.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
I’m a feminist, and I always speak out about how this sick ideology treats girls and women.
6 years ago
Reply to
MTC
There are true feminists such as you, this I do realize. Others professing to be feminists are only concerned with their own status; not giving a toss about their sisters of other cultures who are abused and treated as third-class citizens.
6 years ago
5,000 FGM operations last 12 months in Britain but no arrests. Why ? 5,000 known operations = 5,000 sets of parents breaking the law.
6 years ago
“Despite the practice being illegal in the UK for 31 years, and more than 5,000 new cases recorded in England last year, not a single successful prosecution has been made”. All of these nice white wash laws that are made, but never enforced, are merely the window dressing that those forcing islam on englansistan use. It will not be long before in addition to not being enforced, any law that is seen as islamophobic will be repealed.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I loath to say it, but Britain’s government and agencies have a death-wish. Unfortunately, it is the law-abiding infidels who will pay the ultimate price for the Overlords’ death-wish. Apparently, May’s conservatives are a diluted version, they pander solely to the Muslim communities, even those bent on the downfall of the once Great Britain.
I am certain that the likes of Churchill and others, especially those whom paid the supreme sacrifice and those survivors of the World Wars are turning in their graves.
6 years ago
The UK brought this on itself letting these people have shariah law.
6 years ago
How many of them are sold off? The marriage talk is ,well, a cover up of being sold into slavery for sex. The young person is a slave to the new master that she has never met. Who brokered the deal? Where do the old men put in the bid for a child “bride” ? Then who publishes this?
