Equalities minister Baroness Williams of Trafford and the Home Secretary Sajid Javid are among those working on fighting abuse of minors, which takes many forms but can include forced marriage in ancestral homelands for young British residents, reports The Times.
UK Govt: Somali Heritage Teens Abused in Forced Marriage Detention Centres breitbart.com/london/2018/08…
Normally the marriage age is 18, but 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to marry with parents’ consent — an important loophole because many forced marriage cases involve family pressure, and the consent of a parent. The newspaper report claims the issue is of particular interest to campaigners now because “the forced marriages of teenagers in Asian communities are often perpetrated by parents”.
Speaking at a House of Lords committee Wednesday, Baroness Williams responded to whether the government would review the law to make it easier to tackle forced marriages, saying: “I will certainly bring that point back because [it] is absolutely right to be concerned about it.”
UK Pushes Charges After Just Three Percent of Forced Marriage Reports breitbart.com/london/2018/08…
Breitbart London reported in August on the abuse of young people in minority communities, with the government accused of turning a blind eye to the forced marriage, rape, and even impregnation of British-resident girls when taken abroad by family, often during school holidays. Instead of punishing those responsible, in potentially hundreds of cases, the rapists were given British visas to join their young brides instead.
While the British government logged 1,200 forced marriage cases in 2017, one forced marriage support charity said it received almost 13,000 calls for help to its hotline in just one year.
Report: Ex-Labour Councillor and Immigration Lawyer Asama Javed Is Forced-Marriage Fixer for Girls as Young as 15 breitbart.com/london/2018/08…
Despite the extremely small number of forced marriage cases actually going to court, with just 80 individuals charged and three convicted in the past three years, there have been some efforts to help children taken abroad for abuse.
Targeting those facing female genital mutilation and forced marriage, British police warned children before the summer holidays about the risk of being exposed to “honour-based violence”. Working under operation Limelight and others, officers were deployed to airports and children advised to hide a spoon in their underwear to deliberately set off metal detectors and bring the attention of the authorities to themselves.
Chain Migration: UK Govt ‘Turns Blind Eye’ to Forced Marriage, Hands Visas to Foreign Rapists breitbart.com/london/2018/08…
It is naive to think that raising the minimum age of marriage will have any significant effect on forced child marriage, which is considered to be an acceptable practice in keeping with Islamic teachings. Last month, a British police officer asked if it as “acceptable for an Iraqi man to date a 12-year-old girl because he wanted to be ‘culturally sensitive.'” Difficult to imagine a police officer asking such a question about paedophilia.
One wonders what the UK could have possibly expected with its wide-open borders, except the importation of normative Islamic practices that it is ill-prepared to contend with. The UK has a long way to go to correct its many colossal mistakes in dealing with this problem, beginning with scrapping Sharia courts, which operate beyond the reach of British law, managing its borders, and restoring free speech and the equality of rights of all people before the law.
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