You’d have thought that forced marriages would have been made illegal long ago, you’d be wrong.
London, UK –
Families who force young women into marriage against their will are to face prosecution under plans for a new law to be published later this year.
The proposals would create a specific criminal offence of conspiracy to cause a forced marriage. At present prosecutors have to rely on proving offences such as kidnap, assault and false imprisonment against parents and relatives of victims.
Senior officers believe that nearly 500 forced marriages have taken place in London in the past two years while the national figure is believed to be much higher. Police lobbied the Government earlier in the year for precisely such a change.
Oddly enough, some of the women’s groups on that side of the pond are worried that if this legislation passes, women forced into marriage would be even less likely to press charges.
I’m not so sure. I’m thinking that it is multi-culti speak for “But its their culture!�
Sometime in the next decade the UK government will take on the topic of Honor Killings.
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