{"id":1172,"date":"2017-01-30T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T09:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:39:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:39:25","slug":"marrying-your-rapist-in-malaysia-men-try-to-avoid-rape-charges-through-forced-child-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/marrying-your-rapist-in-malaysia-men-try-to-avoid-rape-charges-through-forced-child-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Marrying Your Rapist in Malaysia Men Try to Avoid Rape Charges Through Forced Child Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of rape often say they are left with devastating, sometimes lifelong, trauma. One <a href=\"http:\/\/nytlive.nytimes.com\/womenintheworld\/2015\/06\/23\/rape-survivor-who-escaped-isis-discusses-torture-she-was-subjected-to\/\">woman<\/a> who was sexually assaulted in Iraq described her feelings this way: \u201cI have no past and no future at the moment. I am stuck in my anger and pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imagine how much worse this pain would be if you were forced to marry your rapist and share a home and bed with him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\" data-type=\"image\">\n<figure class=\"embed node node-image align-right multimedia\">\n<div class=\"embed-media\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"figure-info clearfix\">\n<div class=\"embed-actions\"><a class=\"link--modal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/view-mode\/modal\/299409\">EXPAND<\/a><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the reality for some girls in Malaysia, where local organizations have documented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2016\/08\/malaysia-child-brides-160810123204474.html\">cases<\/a> in which men who raped underage girls \u2013 in one case a girl of 12 \u2013 have attempted to evade criminal charges by marrying the girl.https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2017\/01\/26\/marrying-your-rapist-malaysia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: \u201cI have no past and no future at the moment. I am stuck in my anger and pain.\u201d Imagine how much worse this pain would be if you were [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}