Karnal wrote on Mar 10
th, 2014 at 9:39am:
On the media-hoaxed "epidemic", or for Y the "explosion", there is one marriage. The system intervened, and the father, the husband, and the imam were all brought to justice.
Nuffin' to see 'ere, then.
Unfortunately for your silly case, there are many, many more than one.
Epidemic of child brides in NSW suburbs
ALICIA WOOD, POLITICAL REPORTER THE DAILY TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 12, 2014 7:30AM
HUNDREDS of underage teenagers are living in unregistered defacto marriages in NSW — and pressure is mounting for state and federal authorities to investigate illegal unions.
The statistics came as NSW Women’s Minister Pru Goward urged anyone with information on girls under the age of consent being married off to older men to report such incidents. In NSW, three children aged 14, 30 children aged 15, 152 aged 16 and 483 aged 17 identified themselves as living in a defacto marriage in the 2011 census.
Girl, 14, drugged, raped and forced into marriage
Adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg warned last night that defacto relationships involving teenage girls were detrimental to their psychological health.
“There’s an increased likelihood of these young people developing anxiety and mood disorders or depression,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these kids become potentially suicidal.”
In metropolitan Sydney, the local government areas with the highest number of unregistered teenage defacto marriages are Blacktown and Penrith, with 23 each, Campbelltown with 17, and Liverpool with 12.
In Blacktown, there were seven 16-year-olds and 16 children aged 17 who identified themselves as living in a defacto marriage.
In Penrith, six 15-year-olds, five 16-year-olds and 12 17-year-olds said they were in a defacto marriage.
In regional areas, the problem is more stark. In Wyong, Wollongong and Dubbo, six 15-year-olds in each local government area said they were in defacto marriages, and all three 14-year-olds who said they were defacto marriages live in Young.
The figures come to light amid intense public outrage at the arrest of a 26-year-old man over child sex allegations after his alleged marriage to a 12-year-old girl.
Eman Sharobeem from the Immigrant Women’s Health Service said hundreds of children as young as 11 were being sent overseas to be married after being “shopped” on Facebook. “It’s far more prevalent and well-known than people think,” she said.
Dr Sharobeem said not enough was being done to build awareness about underage marriage. “Regulation needs to be put in place within different religions,” she said. “If we are talking about Australian law, every marriage should be under Australian law,”
“There needs to be proper, culturally appropriate, education and awareness-raising. And we should make it as compulsory as we can.”
Ms Goward has written to federal counterpart Michaelia Cash to push for national awareness campaigns on underage and forced marriage.
“Every young girl in NSW should have the opportunity to make her own choices about her future, and underage marriage is completely unacceptable,” Ms Goward said.
“It doesn’t matter if the arrangement is religious or cultural, if the law in this state says it is illegal, parents and the community need to accept that and abide by it.
“We can only investigate a case if it is reported, so I encourage anyone aware of girls under the age of consent being married off to older men to report it to authorities so it can be investigated.”
Opposition community services spokeswoman Linda Burney said the government should investigate how widespread underage marriage is.“We seemingly don’t have a picture of how widespread this type of behaviour is,” she said. Ms Burney said
The legal marrying age in Australia is 18 unless a court approves a union where one party is aged between 16 and 18.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/epidemic-of-child-brides-in-nsw-suburbs/st...Shopped on Facebook and sent overseas - not Australian then. Nor Europeans.
Lemme fink, lemme fink, where could they send them?
Pakistan, India, Africa, Middle East - to countries from which most of the efniks who do not interact with Australia come from.
You know, the ones who want to keep their kulture.
Nuffin to see here, old chap. Your quoted cases aren’t Muslims.