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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 

Keep your Prozac close by

This is dedicated to the people who like to tally up the statistics of crime in other countries and compare them to our country's crime rates so to prove that they live in an angelic society. When in fact the only reason why our crime statistics are lower is because we don't have official organizations to report and count those things, so there are no rates to be compared to.

The first story is of a girl who was forced by her misfortunes to marry a man at the age of 12. The man is 50 years older than her. As if this isn't already bizarre enough, on the wedding night she gets to find that she is the sixth wife of this pedophile. The story takes an even crazier turn when the young girl finds out that her pedophile husband has been raping her younger and only brother, as if six wives weren't enough. The story in Arabic and in English. (Note: you will need your Prozac before finding out the punishment this scum got).

The second story is just one of many similar ones that happen all the time here. The child protection agency was just found a couple of months ago, so it is easy to understand why this kind of mistreatment of children have flourished in our society for decades.
I couldn't find the story in English but the picture will tell you everything you need about what happened to this girl. And yes, it was by her parents.