Forced marriage: Girl aged five among 400 minors helped

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17534262

There's currently a proposal to make forcing someone to marry a criminal offence. Interesting that organisations working in the area are opposed, apparently it would stop women coming forward.

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I think it's going to be hard to find a balance between a law that acts as a deterrent to people who might consider this but not put women off from reporting cases like the one above. I don't know where you'd start to be honest.

Five years old though. There was a thread on AIBU about a woman whose DD was crying because her reception teacher told her off for talking back. Hard to imagine that in some cultures that little girl is considered fair game and fit for marriage