Post by Bonobo on Feb 9, 2017 13:00:08 GMT 1
A scandal erupted when 3 adult Roma men abducted a 13 year old Roma girl. One of them was planning to marry her. The family called the police and the girl was returned the next day.
www.polskatimes.pl/fakty/kraj/a/chrzanow-amant-porwal-13letnia-romke,11466010/
I can read similar cases happen in Europe too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/23/ireland
The incident on Thursday was the second time in a year that gardai from the central Dublin station have investigated the kidnapping and forced betrothal of a Roma Gypsy child in the city. Last October a 15-year-old girl was snatched and taken as a 'bride' for a Gypsy teenage boy. The gang who held her at a house in Tallaght were arrested. However, the men were later released after the child withdrew her complaint.
The case is believed to involve the 'traditional' form of child-bride abduction and betrothal still practised in parts of the Roma Gypsy community, several thousand of whom live in Ireland.
The Roma practise four types of traditional marriage: a 'ransom' that involves the family of the girl paying an agreed sum for the marriage; an 'elopement' where the girl agrees to abscond with the boy; the 'kidnap' which entails the girl being abducted by the youth's family; and an 'agreement' between both families.
Last week Greater Manchester police, working in co-operation with the Spanish police, arrested three Roma Gypsy men and freed two sisters, aged 14 and 17, who had been abducted in Manchester two weeks ago. The girl's family had been told that if they paid a ransom of £10,000 (€14,300) the girls would not be sold into sex slavery. The girls were found at a house in Madrid and returned to their family. They had been kidnapped while their father had been at a family funeral in Romania.
www.polskatimes.pl/fakty/kraj/a/chrzanow-amant-porwal-13letnia-romke,11466010/
I can read similar cases happen in Europe too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/23/ireland
The incident on Thursday was the second time in a year that gardai from the central Dublin station have investigated the kidnapping and forced betrothal of a Roma Gypsy child in the city. Last October a 15-year-old girl was snatched and taken as a 'bride' for a Gypsy teenage boy. The gang who held her at a house in Tallaght were arrested. However, the men were later released after the child withdrew her complaint.
The case is believed to involve the 'traditional' form of child-bride abduction and betrothal still practised in parts of the Roma Gypsy community, several thousand of whom live in Ireland.
The Roma practise four types of traditional marriage: a 'ransom' that involves the family of the girl paying an agreed sum for the marriage; an 'elopement' where the girl agrees to abscond with the boy; the 'kidnap' which entails the girl being abducted by the youth's family; and an 'agreement' between both families.
Last week Greater Manchester police, working in co-operation with the Spanish police, arrested three Roma Gypsy men and freed two sisters, aged 14 and 17, who had been abducted in Manchester two weeks ago. The girl's family had been told that if they paid a ransom of £10,000 (€14,300) the girls would not be sold into sex slavery. The girls were found at a house in Madrid and returned to their family. They had been kidnapped while their father had been at a family funeral in Romania.