Marrying Your Rapist in Malaysia Men Try to Avoid Rape Charges Through Forced Child Marriage
Published: January 30th, 2017 Updated: December 1st, 2021
Survivors of rape often say they are left with devastating, sometimes lifelong, trauma. One woman who was sexually assaulted in Iraq described her feelings this way: “I have no past and no future at the moment. I am stuck in my anger and pain.”
Imagine how much worse this pain would be if you were forced to marry your rapist and share a home and bed with him.
This is the reality for some girls in Malaysia, where local organizations have documented cases in which men who raped underage girls – in one case a girl of 12 – have attempted to evade criminal charges by marrying the girl.https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/01/26/marrying-your-rapist-malaysia
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