Girl, 16, offs herself after being forced to marry her rapist

[Eri]

Today in awful: a 16-year-old Moroccan girl has reportedly committed suicide after being forced to marry the man who raped her. There is absolutely nothing good about this story.

According to The Delta Herald, the young woman was raped by a man 10 years her senior last year. The family brought charges against him, and, after intervention from the girl's family, the man's family, and acquaintances of both families, a judge decided that instead of subjecting the man to any form of legal punishment, it was probably a good idea to force the two to get married, man and victim. According to Moroccan penal code, a rapist who marries his victim is exempt from legal punishment.

As a result of the crime, the girl was rejected by her father and forced to live in the home of her rapist. And last week, she ended her life by eating rat poison.

Ugh.

http://jezebel.com/5892959/moroccan-girl-kills-herself-after-judge-forces-her-to-marry-her-rapist

I guess I'm not surprised dumb shit keeps going on despite it being 2012. I doubt it will end anytime soon.

 

[Eri]

Didn't some woman get burned for being a witch like a month ago?

Yes... -_- It's a shame really. What can you do though beside bring attention to it.

 

[Chanel Tompkins]

Just more proof that humanity sucks.

 

[Eri]

The article they link to and base their article off of looks terribly unprofessional. I was gonna post this elsewhere, but do you have any better source?

I think the lack of other sources speaks to the fact they obviously see no problem with it or news doesn't get out very easily.

 

[DarkRyter]

Well, at least I can feel better about looking down on less socially advanced cultures.

 

[Adultism]

Oh man, This is why I don't ever visit third world countries.

 

[Logiclul]

Didn't some woman get burned for being a witch like a month ago?

Yes... -_-

Yes but her children got 1 million rupees, bling bling, at least if Ganondorf comes to attack them they have the funds to ward him off without their mother.

Anyway, this story kind of depresses me, she killed herself with rat poison, so who is going to take care of the rapist now that she's dead. That was HER rapist, not somebody else's rapist, it was her responsibility to take care of him, now he's probably all sad and lonely, and there will probably be rats everywhere since she hogged all the poison.

LOL

Topic Creator: this stuff happens all the time. The worst stuff you probably don't even hear about. It's best just to subconsciously be aware of it and not let it affect you until you decide to either make a serious difference or respectfully carry out your life in another fashion.
(and my captcha? "politically correct"; I think that they must match captchas with text content)

 

[Swifty714]

Didn't some woman get burned for being a witch like a month ago?

Yes... -_-

Yes but her children got 1 million rupees, bling bling, at least if Ganondorf comes to attack them they have the funds to ward him off without their mother.

Anyway, this story kind of depresses me, she killed herself with rat poison, so who is going to take care of the rapist now that she's dead. That was HER rapist, not somebody else's rapist, it was her responsibility to take care of him, now he's probably all sad and lonely, and there will probably be rats everywhere since she hogged all the poison.

Successful troll is extremely successful.

In all seriousness, I doubt the story is actually true, or that that is the entire story. Somebody probably heard about the law,a nd decided to make a slashfic about it. The slashfic was then mis-understood by some journalist, and published this.

 

[Jazoni89]

Didn't some woman get burned for being a witch like a month ago?

Yes... -_-

Yes but her children got 1 million rupees, bling bling, at least if Ganondorf comes to attack them they have the funds to ward him off without their mother.

Haha, you sir are glorious, have a free internet.

Yeah, it's sick though, but that line made me smile, being a huge Zelda nerd and all.

 

[Eri]

Didn't some woman get burned for being a witch like a month ago?

Yes... -_-

Yes but her children got 1 million rupees, bling bling, at least if Ganondorf comes to attack them they have the funds to ward him off without their mother.

Anyway, this story kind of depresses me, she killed herself with rat poison, so who is going to take care of the rapist now that she's dead. That was HER rapist, not somebody else's rapist, it was her responsibility to take care of him, now he's probably all sad and lonely, and there will probably be rats everywhere since she hogged all the poison.

Successful troll is extremely successful.

In all seriousness, I doubt the story is actually true, or that that is the entire story. Somebody probably heard about the law,a nd decided to make a slashfic about it. The slashfic was then mis-understood by some journalist, and published this.

It's perfectly true. This happens in other countries as well, just go search BBC news and you'll find older articles about other countries forcing their women to do the same.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

The article they link to and base their article off of looks terribly unprofessional. I was gonna post this elsewhere, but do you have any better source?

I think the lack of other sources speaks to the fact they obviously see no problem with it or news doesn't get out very easily.

Or it could be completely fake to get page views.

 

[Eri]

The article they link to and base their article off of looks terribly unprofessional. I was gonna post this elsewhere, but do you have any better source?

I think the lack of other sources speaks to the fact they obviously see no problem with it or news doesn't get out very easily.

Or it could be completely fake to get page views.

But it's not.

Didn't some woman get burned for being a witch like a month ago?

Yes... -_-

Yes but her children got 1 million rupees, bling bling, at least if Ganondorf comes to attack them they have the funds to ward him off without their mother.

Anyway, this story kind of depresses me, she killed herself with rat poison, so who is going to take care of the rapist now that she's dead. That was HER rapist, not somebody else's rapist, it was her responsibility to take care of him, now he's probably all sad and lonely, and there will probably be rats everywhere since she hogged all the poison.

Successful troll is extremely successful.

In all seriousness, I doubt the story is actually true, or that that is the entire story. Somebody probably heard about the law,a nd decided to make a slashfic about it. The slashfic was then mis-understood by some journalist, and published this.

It's perfectly true. This happens in other countries as well, just go search BBC news and you'll find older articles about other countries forcing their women to do the same.

 

[Nouw]

Oh man, This is why I don't ever visit third world countries.

Because you'll somehow be raped and be forced to marry your rapist?