Italy teen forced to marry cousin

May 29, 2010 - By arrangement with AKI |

Macerata

A Pakistani schoolgirl living in southern Italy complained to the police after her family allegedly forced her into an arranged marriage with her 34-year-old cousin.
The 17-year-old girl told the police in the town of Corridonia that she received death threats from relatives after she refused to live with her cousin-husband in France. The schoolgirl lives with her parents and siblings in Corridonia in the southern Basilicata region. The teenager telephoned the police on Monday, the day before the family had arranged for her to leave for France. The Carabinieri military police went to the girl’s family home and took her to the town’s mayor, Nelia Calvigionia. Under Italian law this is the first step in cases involving the alleged abuse of minors. The girl has now been placed in a shelter. In January, another Pakistani teenager was abducted by her father in northern Italy after she was placed in foster care.

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Game-addict couple, held in March, get jail
Seoul, May 28: A South Korean couple who left their baby to starve while raising a “virtual child” on the Internet were given prison sentences on Friday.
The 41-year-old husband and his wife, 25, were arrested in March for leaving their daughter to die while they spent hours at Internet cafes.
A district court at Suweon, south of Seoul, sentenced the husband to two years in jail, but suspended the wife’s two-year jail term since she is pregnant with a second child.
“The defendants’ prematurely born daughter needed constant care but they did not feed the baby and even beat their little daughter, while indulging in online games,” the court said in a ruling on Friday.
—AFP

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