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urvoice1 5.02.14 - 09:36pm
Malaysian women's rights groups are calling on authorities to raise the legal marriage age to 18, to protect young girls. The issue of child marriage is again a focus in Malaysia after a court sentenced a man to 12 years' jail for r*ping a 12-year-old girl and then marrying her. * +

urvoice1 5.02.14 - 09:38pm
The district court in the eastern state of Sabah ruled that while the marriage was valid, the man had committed r*pe. Suri Kempe from Sisters in Islam in Kuala Lumpur has told Radio Australia's Asia Pacific at least one big case a year makes headlines in Malaysia, but the problem is much bigger. * +

urvoice1 5.02.14 - 09:39pm
Ms Kempe says in the case of Muslims, the Sharia courts grant permission. Ms Kempe says census data from 2000 showed more than 6,800 girls under the age of 15 were married. By 2010, that figure had risen to 16,000 girls. * +

prismf 6.02.14 - 06:40am
Them poor girls. (sad) * +

cheeky63 6.02.14 - 08:27pm

@ urvoice1 - 5.02.14 - 09:39pm
Ms Kempe says in the case of Muslims, the Sharia courts grant permission. Ms Kempe says census data from 2000 showed more than 6,800 girls under the age of 15 were married. By 2010, that figure had risen to 16,000 girls.

fkn diabolical something has to be done atho it shouldnt be going on for them to ban it but it is so has to be stopped soon makes me feel sick * +

bozzalad 6.02.14 - 08:31pm
won't happen because it's sunnah *

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