Court case in Pakistan: marriage legal with girls who have started menstruation

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This is awful. Why isn't it being reported by any mainstream western media? A couple of Indian papers and quite a few Catholic papers are covering it (because of the forced conversion aspect). I don't understand why people aren't making a bigger fuss about this, and child marriage in general. How can people still be getting away with it, legally, in the 21st century?!

www.indcatholicnews.com/news/38862

@Canklesforankles, Yes, I think I've posted about the situation in the US before (maybe it was on FB not here) after there was a BBC radio documentary about it, and several women interviewed whose families had colluded in them marrying their rapist whilst young teenagers to avoid scandal or even just for financial gain. Horrific. It's clearly not a problem limited to Pakistan or developnig countries, even the so-called leaders of the free world are at it.

Well at least it is a bit better than the USA where child marriage is legal in most States with parental consent. Even if the child hasn’t started their periods.

@LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett, Yes, her lawyer refers to the man as her rapist (rather than 'husband'), and she has allegedly been forced to convert to Islam - that bit was in a different Catholic paper, not the one linked.

Are you serious?
It's not reported here by the MSM for the same reason Scotland's first Asian grooming gang case from 2016 that the media knew about all along is only just being acknowledged.