{"id":1053,"date":"2016-01-22T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:02:52","slug":"courts-step-in-to-stop-nine-year-old-girl-from-being-sent-to-afghanistan-to-marry-her-cousin-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/courts-step-in-to-stop-nine-year-old-girl-from-being-sent-to-afghanistan-to-marry-her-cousin-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts step in to stop nine-year-old girl from being sent to Afghanistan to marry her cousin, 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police and social workers stepped in to stop a nine-year-old girl from being sent to\u00a0Afghanistan to marry an 18-year-old cousin, a judge heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The girl&#8217;s mother had told social services staff that her father was planning the trip, Mr Justice MacDonald heard.\u00a0Another judge had made both parents the subject of forced marriage protection orders after child protection specialists began legal moves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\">\n<div id=\"share-pictures-1\" class=\"share-pictures-overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\">Police and social workers stepped in to stop a nine-year-old girl from being sent to Afghanistan to marry an 18-year-old cousin, a judge at the High Court (pictured) heard<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Orders barred the couple from &#8216;permitting&#8217; the girl to &#8216;undergo marriage&#8217;.\u00a0Detail of the case has emerged in a ruling by Mr Justice MacDonald following a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The girl had been temporarily taken into local authority care in the wake of her mother&#8217;s allegation<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3412260\/Courts-step-stop-nine-year-old-girl-sent-Afghanistan-marry-cousin-18.html#ixzz3xzYJcEqd\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3412260\/Courts-step-stop-nine-year-old-girl-sent-Afghanistan-marry-cousin-18.html#ixzz3xzYJcEqd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police and social workers stepped in to stop a nine-year-old girl from being sent to\u00a0Afghanistan to marry an 18-year-old cousin, a judge heard. The girl&#8217;s mother had told social services staff that her father was planning the trip, Mr Justice MacDonald heard.\u00a0Another judge had made both parents the subject of forced marriage protection orders after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[373,7,359,4,10],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-child-protection","tag-forced-marriage","tag-forced-marriage-protection-orders","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}