A father in Australia was given an 8 year jail sentence for arranging the wedding of his 12 year old daughter, to a 26 year old man in an Islamic wedding.

How sickening can this world get.

Glad the Aussies saw fit to give him 8 years, if it had been here he probably would have got community service.

That's disgusting. They should make the dad marry a goat.

I wouldn't be surprised if he already has

Well the only ray of hope about this whole scenario to me is if and I do stress the "if" he does the 8 years she will at least be old enough then...
I don't even try to figure out what this world is coming to...

Hey Joe good to see you

He encouraged her to get pregnant also....


"" A father who arranged for his 12-year-old
daughter to marry and have sex with a 26-
year-old university student, resulting in her
falling pregnant, has been jailed for at least
six years.
"His role was to protect her, not put her into a
relationship where she was at risk of
pregnancy at the age of 12," Judge Deborah
Sweeney said in sentencing the 63-year-old in
the Downing Centre District Court on Friday.
"That this man thought his actions were
justified by his religious faith does not excuse
what he did," she said.
The father, whose name is suppressed to
protect his daughter's identity, was convicted
on April 1 of "intentionally procuring a child
under 14 for unlawful sexual activity" and for
"inciting" and "encouraging" this activity to
take place.
The court heard that the father was concerned
that, once his daughter began showing an
interest in boys, there was a risk she would
have sex outside marriage, which he believed
was a sin under Islamic law.
He felt that a "solution" to this problem was
for his daughter to get married so that she
would not be living in sin if she had sex.
When the university student approached the
father at a Muslim prayer meeting in 2013 and
said he wanted to marry the man's daughter,
the man arranged for the pair to meet and to
swap phone numbers.
Some months later, against the strong
objections from the girl's mother, the father
arranged for his daughter to marry the student
in an Islamic ceremony at his home in the
Hunter region of NSW.
He then encouraged the pair to
consummate the marriage, and told his
daughter not to use contraception or to let her
new husband do so either.
"When the child and the man returned to he
offender's home for the first time after being
married, he made available to them a
bedroom," Judge Sweeney said.
"He removed the two single beds and left two
single mattresses in the room. The two had
sexual intercourse together twice during that
weekend.
"By this conduct, allowing them to stay in his
house and stay in the same room, the offender
made it more likely for them to have sexual
intercourse."
About 18 months after the "marriage" the 12-
year-old became pregnant.
It was an ectopic pregnancy that resulted in a
miscarriage.""
http://m.smh.com.au/nsw/father-who-arranged-for-daughter-12-to-marry-man-26-jailed-for-six-years-20150717-giefa2.html

You're best not trying to figure out this world, it will drive you nuts otherwise, I've given up too

Good to see you as well Rains

I try to recognize differences in culture as much as I can, and allow for them. Because I know so many different kinds of people, not only from different cultural backgrounds, but also from different intelligence levels, different genders, different gender identifications, and most of all, tremendously different life experiences (which do more to shape an individuals' ability to understand others' challenges and sufferings than anything else)...

I find I must be careful about both condemnations, and acceptances.

HOWEVER.

Something I think really should be considered, is that people who want to emigrate from one culture to another, should have, as a part of their test of citizenship, that they must avow that they both understand, and will adhere to, the standards of the societies into which they are choosing to live.

Perhaps the members of this family would have taken the laws here more seriously, if it were made a part of their procedures to be allowed to move here, that they had to specifically sign and avow that they would obey OUR version of the cultural laws which they want to follow.

The problem with this, of course, is that as soon as we cross the line into declaring that SOME Americans can tell OTHER Americans what is and is not acceptable, pretty much everyone's personal religious and moral freedom will be at serious risk.

Uh, Folks, from a historical perspective, there isn't anything unusual about a 12-year-old female becoming a bride. That sort of thing used to be acceptable in various cultures, including in the USA at one time.

Nevertheless, that Muslim father in Australia blatantly violated the law and is getting the punishment that he earned.

Oh my gosh the poor kid
What 12 knows what they want at 12? The kids I deal with don't even know what pie to eat.
Innocence robbed.

thats just icky

I don't know!

Just a bunch of sickening sick sick's sickenating sickners!
String em up!

Don't they know the law?!?!?!?!?!

"The father...was convicted
on April 1 of 'intentionally procuring a child
under 14 for unlawful sexual activity...'"

Just wait the 2 years!

THEN it's okay!

Geez. Is that really so hard?

I mean they can't drive, can't drink, can't vote, can't really work.
So it's not like they can get away.

Just put her on a leash and let them go out on dates to "get to know" each other for the 2 years.

With the thread title,
it was a given, that islam would be involved.

shocking... just shocking

makes you wonder.. how ANY mind.. ANY religion.. ANY human could possibly see this as o.k.

Why would you wish to reward him?

If it would have been here, Barry would have offered up one of his own daughters.

They aren't human!