{"id":127,"date":"2013-05-23T10:09:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2013-05-23T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T10:09:13","slug":"police-picks-up-everybody-involved-in-forced-marriage-saga-of-13-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/police-picks-up-everybody-involved-in-forced-marriage-saga-of-13-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Police picks up everybody involved in forced marriage saga of 13-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Police have ended the drama over the Ablekuma forced marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The Police stormed the house and picked up everybody \u2013 the man in the centre of the controversial marriage, her 13-year-old wife and the runaway elder sister, their mother and father. \u00a0\u00a0The 13-year-old school girl was forced to marry a 25-year-old man originally scheduled to marry her 18-year-old elder sister.<\/p>\n<p>The older girl had refused to marry the man and run away on the day of the marriage. \u00a0In her place however, her 13-year-old sister was forced to marry the man at a matrimonial ceremony held at Ablekuma in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>But in a dramatic turn of events&#8230;. click here to read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.myjoyonline.com\/pages\/news\/201305\/106475.php\">http:\/\/edition.myjoyonline.com\/pages\/news\/201305\/106475.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Police have ended the drama over the Ablekuma forced marriage. The Police stormed the house and picked up everybody \u2013 the man in the centre of the controversial marriage, her 13-year-old wife and the runaway elder sister, their mother and father. \u00a0\u00a0The 13-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,19,7,4,3,12,54,73,72,31],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-controversial","tag-forced","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-haloproject","tag-marry","tag-police","tag-run-away","tag-school-girl","tag-victims"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}