Culture and religion doesn't rule the day. In the USA there are limits to the power adverse culture and religion. The most popular example is Jehovah Witness limiting medical treatment of children.
This a traumatic incident to these girls. This is criminal.
An unidentified mother cries out during a demonstration to raise
awareness of kidnapped school girls at a government school on Tuesday
April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP Photo/ Gbemiga Olamikan)
Samson Dawah was nervous. (click here) For two weeks, he had waited for any bit of information regarding his niece, who was among the 234 Nigerian school girls likely kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. This week, he gathered his extended family. He had news but also an unusual request. He asked that the elderly not attend. He wasn’t sure they could bear what he had to say.
“We have heard from members of the forest community where they took the girls,” he told them. ”They said there had been mass marriages and the girls are being shared out as wives among the Boko Haram militants.”
The girl’s father fainted, the Guardian reported, and has since been hospitalized. But the news got worse. Village elder Pogo Bitrus told Agence France Presse locals had consulted with “various sources” in the nation’s forested northeast. “From the information we received yesterday from Cameroonian border towns our abducted girls were taken… into Chad and Cameroon,” he said, adding that each girl was sold as a bride to Islamist militants for 2,000 naira — $12....
In the USA PURCHASING women for sexual purpose is prostitution. Dowry arrangements occur in many cultures and countries. Dowry is a method of improving a husband's grasp of his responsibility. Dowries are when a father provides monies, good and services to the new husband. Purchasing girls for sex while calling them a wife is human trafficking.
Human trafficking is the acquisition of people (click here) by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.
This a traumatic incident to these girls. This is criminal.
An unidentified mother cries out during a demonstration to raise
awareness of kidnapped school girls at a government school on Tuesday
April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP Photo/ Gbemiga Olamikan)Samson Dawah was nervous. (click here) For two weeks, he had waited for any bit of information regarding his niece, who was among the 234 Nigerian school girls likely kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. This week, he gathered his extended family. He had news but also an unusual request. He asked that the elderly not attend. He wasn’t sure they could bear what he had to say.
“We have heard from members of the forest community where they took the girls,” he told them. ”They said there had been mass marriages and the girls are being shared out as wives among the Boko Haram militants.”
The girl’s father fainted, the Guardian reported, and has since been hospitalized. But the news got worse. Village elder Pogo Bitrus told Agence France Presse locals had consulted with “various sources” in the nation’s forested northeast. “From the information we received yesterday from Cameroonian border towns our abducted girls were taken… into Chad and Cameroon,” he said, adding that each girl was sold as a bride to Islamist militants for 2,000 naira — $12....
In the USA PURCHASING women for sexual purpose is prostitution. Dowry arrangements occur in many cultures and countries. Dowry is a method of improving a husband's grasp of his responsibility. Dowries are when a father provides monies, good and services to the new husband. Purchasing girls for sex while calling them a wife is human trafficking.
Human trafficking is the acquisition of people (click here) by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.
Smuggling migrants involves the
procurement for financial or other material benefit of illegal entry of a
person into a State of which that person is not a national or resident.
Virtually every country in the world is
affected by these crimes. The challenge for all countries, rich and
poor, is to target the criminals who exploit desperate people and to
protect and assist victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants, many of
whom endure unimaginable hardships in their bid for a better life....
