Forced Marriages at Record High in South Wales
According to BBC News Wales:
South Wales Police say they are dealing with the largest number of cases of forced marriage and honour based-violence they have ever seen.
In the past 12 months, the force has dealt with 49 cases of forced marriage, up from a typical 30-35, with new cases almost every week.
Now, stop and consider this for a moment. "Forced marriage" is a euphemism for kidnapping, unlawful detention, and (repeated) acts of assault, battery, sexual assault, and rape. It is astonishing that "30-35" cases of such a blatant crime would be occuring every year in what is not exactly a huge population area.
Ch Supt Neil Kinrade, head of South Wales Police's communities and partnerships department, said forced marriage was a "hidden harm" among some sectors of the community.
Wonder just which sectors he means?
He said: "I'm pleased that we are dealing with the numbers [of cases that] we are, however, we are still only dealing with a small number of the actual incidents and practices that are taking place.
"This, amongst the community, is a hidden harm.
So, this is a massive conspiracy to serially abduct, imprison and repeatedly rape women.
"I think it's less of a problem here than perhaps places like Bradford and London, but nevertheless, it is a problem and it's something that we need to do something about."
... and it's more of a problem in Bradford and London.
Strategies for helping victims included supplying them with a secret mobile phone if they feared they were being lured to their family's country of origin as a prelude to a forced marriage.
The force had also set up a "buddy" system where force marriage "survivors" were a role model to those who were now going through the trauma.
Reading this article, I am struck by one major thing.
There was no mention of the perpetrators being arrested and sentenced to long prison terms. And you'd think that, if the police and courts were doing this, they'd want to make this public, because it would deter more such crimes.
Wrap your mind around this. In Britain, if you have the misfortune to be born female to a Muslim family, you can be abducted, imprisoned, and serially raped -- and the police will send you to a support group, rather than securing your safety by making sure that the monsters in human form who did this are put away from the rest of society so that they can never perpetrate such crimes again.
I mourn the passing of the old Britain.
South Wales Police say they are dealing with the largest number of cases of forced marriage and honour based-violence they have ever seen.
In the past 12 months, the force has dealt with 49 cases of forced marriage, up from a typical 30-35, with new cases almost every week.
Now, stop and consider this for a moment. "Forced marriage" is a euphemism for kidnapping, unlawful detention, and (repeated) acts of assault, battery, sexual assault, and rape. It is astonishing that "30-35" cases of such a blatant crime would be occuring every year in what is not exactly a huge population area.
Ch Supt Neil Kinrade, head of South Wales Police's communities and partnerships department, said forced marriage was a "hidden harm" among some sectors of the community.
Wonder just which sectors he means?
He said: "I'm pleased that we are dealing with the numbers [of cases that] we are, however, we are still only dealing with a small number of the actual incidents and practices that are taking place.
"This, amongst the community, is a hidden harm.
So, this is a massive conspiracy to serially abduct, imprison and repeatedly rape women.
"I think it's less of a problem here than perhaps places like Bradford and London, but nevertheless, it is a problem and it's something that we need to do something about."
... and it's more of a problem in Bradford and London.
Strategies for helping victims included supplying them with a secret mobile phone if they feared they were being lured to their family's country of origin as a prelude to a forced marriage.
The force had also set up a "buddy" system where force marriage "survivors" were a role model to those who were now going through the trauma.
Reading this article, I am struck by one major thing.
There was no mention of the perpetrators being arrested and sentenced to long prison terms. And you'd think that, if the police and courts were doing this, they'd want to make this public, because it would deter more such crimes.
Wrap your mind around this. In Britain, if you have the misfortune to be born female to a Muslim family, you can be abducted, imprisoned, and serially raped -- and the police will send you to a support group, rather than securing your safety by making sure that the monsters in human form who did this are put away from the rest of society so that they can never perpetrate such crimes again.
I mourn the passing of the old Britain.