It happens not ONLY in India!!

Formatted Soul
By Formatted Soul

some people think such things happens only in India!!

Pig dowry for teen forced into marriage

A New Zealand teen was forced to marry her boyfriend’s father and consummate the marriage after the groom gave her parents a pig and some mats as a dowry, according to a report yesterday.

The girl’s mother and a man understood to be her stepfather have been charged with detaining her, “allegedly to force her to be the groom’s wife and to force her to have sex with him”, the Sunday Star-Times said.

The mother is also charged with assaulting her daughter twice over the marriage issue.

The report said the girl, of Tongan descent and believed to be about 17 years old, did not want to marry the man but an agreement was reached between the two families and she was obliged to honour it.

Her family was given a dowry of a large pig and expensive mats.

On her wedding night, the girl ran away to her boyfriend, understood to be the groom’s son.

It was then that she was allegedly assaulted, abducted and taken back to the matrimonial home to perform her duties as a wife, the report said.

Neither the girl nor her husband could be reached for comment but her mother told the newspaper: “My family’s problems are gone... I don’t want to say anything.”

The mother and her husband are due to reappear in court later this month facing six charges, the most serious of which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years’ jail

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=336534...

By maurochiado• 11 Jan 2010 11:36
maurochiado

doesn't matter where these awful things happens, ignorance creates monsters

By teepatter• 11 Jan 2010 11:18
teepatter

you are right it happens almost everywhere..with different versions.

By qatarmedic• 11 Jan 2010 11:08
qatarmedic

who said it is only in india???

...anywhere it does.

peace

By twenty• 11 Jan 2010 11:07
twenty

.....Eureka !!!!!

By teepatter• 11 Jan 2010 11:06
teepatter

Let's hope she gets out soon.

By thalib01• 11 Jan 2010 11:02
thalib01

whoever said this happen only in India....

By phoenix2009• 11 Jan 2010 10:43
phoenix2009

so it happened somewhere else, but would india prosecute the parents?

Yalla!

By Olive• 11 Jan 2010 10:30
Olive

Not in mine anymore s_isale, unless my parents are giving my fiance a dowry behind my back.

By s_isale• 11 Jan 2010 09:47
s_isale

it sill does exist in all cultures

By Olive• 11 Jan 2010 09:22
Rating: 5/5
Olive

Dowry in not just an Indian concept, it's existed in most cultures.

By chinx_lady• 11 Jan 2010 09:18
chinx_lady

i call it insanity!

By Aunty virus• 11 Jan 2010 09:13
Aunty virus

I thought dowry is an Indian concept. Blame it on lack of education.

By Rev.s• 11 Jan 2010 09:02
Rev.s

the preist told the girl parents that her first husband will die sum evil spirts who eva she marry,so they got her married to a dawg..

http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=97627

-: I may not agree with everything what you say, but to the death I will defend your right to say it :-

By anonymous• 11 Jan 2010 08:59
anonymous

The Boyfriends's father is always the villian in the movies....

.....and he consumated the marriage with force?...yanni rape?!?!!....aka ..Shakti Kapoor?

:(

By anonymous• 11 Jan 2010 08:50
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

Bullshit.... PIG as Dowry... Insane!!

By anonymous• 11 Jan 2010 08:48
anonymous

it happens everywhere in different way...

By Olive• 11 Jan 2010 08:46
Olive

It can happen anywhere where people are still living by antiquated tribal laws and medieval thinking.

By s_isale• 11 Jan 2010 08:46
s_isale

where in india do they give pig as dowry?

By Arien• 11 Jan 2010 08:44
Arien

Duh!!! sick heads.

By blablubliblrrr• 11 Jan 2010 08:36
blablubliblrrr

Now,where is that idiot BF?

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