{"id":513,"date":"2014-02-13T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:31:29","slug":"shame-of-our-child-brides-court-hears-how-woman-was-raped-and-beaten-as-its-revealed-hundreds-are-forced-into-arranged-and-unregistered-marriages-across-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/shame-of-our-child-brides-court-hears-how-woman-was-raped-and-beaten-as-its-revealed-hundreds-are-forced-into-arranged-and-unregistered-marriages-across-nsw\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame of our child brides: Court hears how woman was raped and beaten as it\u2019s revealed hundreds are forced into arranged and unregistered marriages across NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was forced into an Islamic marriage with a western Sydney drug gang member who raped and beat her and later physically abused their daughter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Details of the now 25-year old victim\u2019s ordeal surfaced in the Federal Circuit Court where the victim was fighting to have the man banned from seeing their daughter.<\/p>\n<p>So appalling was the woman&#8217;s life of abuse, which included claims that her father told her she could only leave her marriage \u201cin a coffin\u201d, that Judge Joseph Harman made an unprecedented public appeal in his judgment for authorities to act.<\/p>\n<p>The story came to light after the Daily Telegraph reported the arrest of a man who had been living with a 12-year-old as his wife in Sydney.\u00a0The imam who married the pair, Riaz Tasawar, was yesterday arrested by police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon publication of these reasons and should any agency wish to investigate matters &#8230; they are in a position to make application to the court for leave to inspect the file and obtain material,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>That would include the child dispute conference memo in which an admission is made by the father in the following terms: \u201cThe father admitted that he knew at the time of the Islamic marriage to the mother that she was 14 years of age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Read More:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/shame-of-our-child-brides-court-hears-how-woman-was-raped-and-beaten-as-its-revealed-hundreds-are-forced-into-arranged-and-unregistered-marriages-across-nsw\/story-fnii5s3y-1226824176047<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was forced into an Islamic marriage with a western Sydney drug gang member who raped and beat her and later physically abused their daughter. Details of the now 25-year old victim\u2019s ordeal surfaced in the Federal Circuit Court where the victim was fighting to have the man banned from seeing their daughter. [&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":[108,7,4,10,109,110,9],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-australia","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-imam","tag-islamic-marriage","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}