At Last Some Progress !!!!

[birol]

Well, In Turkey that is ...

According to our (Ours ? theirs ? I do not know I am confused)  laws, if someone who rapes a woman marries to the girl/woman he rapes, he doesn't go to jail, as they are now married and what happened sort of becomes a non issue.


I know weird ... but if the woman agrees to it, man is off the hook !

Now because of this law what was happenign was, man were raping children (AARRRGHH  "I CAN NOT TYPE IT HERE IT WILL GET CENSORED" TYPE OF SENTENCE!!) aged say 9 to 13 or whatever, and going to jail because of rape. The man's family were bribing/forcing/threatining the girls family to persuade their daughter to marry the man. (This just happened a week ago to a 12 year old girl) So the poor girl was "agreeing" to marry his rapist ! And her family was getting a big truck or 10K usd, or whatever is acceptable for them, and they were marrying and the man was getting out of jail ! Imagine being forcd to amrry a 40 year old man who raped you when you are 10 years old and have to marry him !!!!

At last, the politicians realized that this is a shame ! Now they are changing the laws, so marriage is not going to get the man out of jail, no matter what !

Makes you wonder, what other kind of archaic laws are ther  all around the world who makes the victim punished !!!!!

I am so mad and happy at the same time. Mad that this is 2004 and they still have this law, and happy that at last they are chaging it ! (Of course they want to join that European thingie magicie .....so they had better do some positive changes)

If this doesn't interest you, please just ignore it ?   I just wanted to share/show what a country has to go trough before it becomes civilized, and every small thing we take granted is a small battle that has to be fought for us.

MAKE SURE YOU VOTE AND CHOOSE WHO WILL FIGHT FOR YOU AND YOUR BELIEFS !!!

[aw738]

MAKE SURE YOU VOTE AND CHOOSE WHO WILL FIGHT FOR YOU AND YOUR BELIEFS !!!

Well said Birol.

[Acts 2:38 girl]

Good they are changing it, but bad it was ever in place.  I bet it wasn't a woman making that law!  :mad: