More off-beat news from Indonesia, this from today's issue of the Jakarta Post:
In West Java, Child Marriage Turns Fatal.
"A teenage girl from West Java," the article tells us, "has died after allegedly being a victim of domestic abuse in what appears to be a court approved child marriage."
The girl was 15. Her husband 16. The girl died from "multiple head injuries and wounds all over her body".
The husband was held in police custody for 24 hours, but has been released due to "lack of evidence".
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Research done by Gadjah Mada University in 2011 showed that 44 percent of child brides are subject to frequent abuse in their marriage. In 2012, a national survey showed that 220,000 girls had been married at least once in West Java.
In this case, the parents of the children decided to marry them off out of concern that they might commit pre-marital sex, which is deemed sinful in Islam.
This sin, therefore, was avoided. Unfortunately, the solution seems to have led to murder. Which I'm pretty sure is also a sin.
In West Java, Child Marriage Turns Fatal.
"A teenage girl from West Java," the article tells us, "has died after allegedly being a victim of domestic abuse in what appears to be a court approved child marriage."
The girl was 15. Her husband 16. The girl died from "multiple head injuries and wounds all over her body".
The husband was held in police custody for 24 hours, but has been released due to "lack of evidence".
?
Research done by Gadjah Mada University in 2011 showed that 44 percent of child brides are subject to frequent abuse in their marriage. In 2012, a national survey showed that 220,000 girls had been married at least once in West Java.
In this case, the parents of the children decided to marry them off out of concern that they might commit pre-marital sex, which is deemed sinful in Islam.
This sin, therefore, was avoided. Unfortunately, the solution seems to have led to murder. Which I'm pretty sure is also a sin.
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