Abuse alert
Miranda Devine
Sunday, October 20, 2013
A MUSLIM child-bride married off at age 14 and abused by her husband for the next six years has won full custody of their child in a case that should send warning bells across Australia.
Federal Circuit Court judge Joe Harman was so appalled by the violent abuse endured by the young woman, now 24, that he called her former husband as “a most heinous, capricious and revolting misogynist”.
What is most disturbing about this story is not just that her parents willingly married her off to such a man.
It is that she told a teacher of her problems but nothing was done, despite mandatory reporting requirements.
This is cultural tolerance beyond reason. Domestic abuse is wrong in any culture.
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