Forced Marriages: Research Thesis Hopes To Lift Veil On Practice

Sakina (fictitious name) was born in Bangladesh yet raised in Montreal. At 16, she returned to her homeland with her parents under the pretext of visiting her sick grandmother. The young woman was then forced to marry a man twice her age - despite her resistance. The girl later wrote to her mother that she was kept in a locked room, where she was beaten and raped…

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Filed under: Women's Health / OBGYN on February 6th, 2010