# Judge forces 16-year old Moroccan girl to marry her rapist **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798 "2012-03-14T22:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/1 "2012-03-14T22:56:58Z")
The poor kid then commits suicide. [Story](http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/14/200577.html) > [@](#): > > A 16-year-old Moroccan girl has committed suicide after a judge ordered her to marry her rapist, according to Moroccan media reports. > > Last year Amina’s parents filed charges against their daughter’s rapist, a man 10 years older than her but it was only recently that a judge in the northern city of Tangier decided that instead of punishing him, the two must be married. > > The court’s decision to forcibly marry Amina to her rapist was supposed to “resolve” the damage of sexual violation against her, but it led to more suffering in the unwelcoming home of her rapist/husband’s family. > > Traumatized by the painful experience of rape, Amina decided to end her life by consuming rat poison in the house of her husband’s family, according to the Moroccan daily al-Massae. Fuck this judge. Fuck the Moroccan government for allowing this barbarity. Words fail me, I’m just sick to my stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Semjaazah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Semjaazah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Semjaazah)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/2 "2012-03-14T23:03:33Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Fuck this judge. Fuck the Moroccan government for allowing this barbarity. Words fail me, I’m just sick to my stomach. I agree. I’d also add fuck the cultural/religious values that allow them to enforce these kinds of nonsense rules. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/3 "2012-03-14T23:11:44Z")
Fuckin’ rat poison. The Middle East would know such peace if only they got rid of the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/4 "2012-03-15T00:00:04Z")
Well I guess we could always invade…Morocco wouldn’t put up a tenth the fight Iraq did… ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/5 "2012-03-15T00:06:26Z")
I know about these laws in theory. However, each time I read or hear about them being actually used makes me go :dubious: :smack::rolleyes:😕:eek:. And then I get all stabby. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/6 "2012-03-15T00:08:37Z")
What an unbelievably horrific thing for this girl to go through. I hope somebody figures out to forcibly remove that cretin’s penis. Too bad she couldn’t do that instead of opting out completely. At least take him out first. How else to empower women in countries like these, besides handing them all the guns and ammo they could handle? Obviously that wouldn’t work, but I wish it could. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/7 "2012-03-15T00:32:07Z")
Did he have to pay a 50 Shekel fine? [ > [@God](#): > > **Deuteronomy 22:28-29** > \*King James Version (KJV) > \* > 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; > > 29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. ]([Deuteronomy 22:28-29 KJV - If a man find a damsel that is a - Bible Gateway](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2022:28-29&version=KJV)) ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/8 "2012-03-15T00:33:33Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Fuckin’ rat poison. The Middle East would know such peace if only they got rid of the stuff. Morocco moved to the Middle East? ---
**Author:** ![Snite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Snite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snite)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/9 "2012-03-15T00:52:47Z")
Northern Africa is generally considered part of the Middle East more for cultural reasons than geographical. ---
**Author:** ![mister\_nyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@mister\_nyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mister_nyx)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/10 "2012-03-15T00:56:47Z")
> [@Snite](#): > > Northern Africa is generally considered part of the Middle East more for cultural reasons than geographical. I’m not sure who “generally considers” Morocco to be in the Middle East but it’s not geographers or social scientists. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/11 "2012-03-15T01:05:41Z")
> [@mister\_nyx](#): > > I’m not sure who “generally considers” Morocco to be in the Middle East but it’s not geographers or social scientists. Would you settle for “in the same geopolitical region as the Middle East” rather than “ **in** the Middle East”? After all, the acronym [MENA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA), for “Middle East and North Africa”, is pretty generally recognized as referring to a particular geographical/economic/cultural area. ---
**Author:** ![mister\_nyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@mister\_nyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mister_nyx)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/12 "2012-03-15T01:33:07Z")
“MENA” is the term I generally expect to see, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/13 "2012-03-15T01:45:38Z")
I thought Morocco was a decent country… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/14 "2012-03-15T01:59:07Z")
Why didn’t Morocco Mole call on Secret Squirrel to stop this travesty? Eh, sidekicks… well, I guess that’s why they’re not main characters. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/15 "2012-03-15T02:14:15Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Did he have to pay a 50 Shekel fine? I’ve found that Americans are, in general, not very grateful when you explain to them that the laws they like to ridicule as examples of the stupidity of Islam, are in fact based on the Law of Moses. You know, the one they want posted in schools and courthouses. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/16 "2012-03-15T02:22:55Z")
Well, we’ve refined them a bit. I thought Morocco was better than this. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/17 "2012-03-15T02:26:17Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > I thought Morocco was a decent country… We’ve been lied to by our Bob Hope movies! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/18 "2012-03-15T02:36:58Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > We’ve been lied to by our Bob Hope movies! Don’t forget Casablanca (which is by far the best known movie set in Morocco). ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/19 "2012-03-15T02:52:05Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I’ve found that Americans are, in general, not very grateful when you explain to them that the laws they like to ridicule as examples of the stupidity of Islam, are in fact based on the Law of Moses. > > You know, the one they want posted in schools and courthouses. Not all of us Merkins want the 10 Commandments posted on gummint buildings. Some of us are quite opposed to that notion, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798/20 "2012-03-15T06:05:03Z")
In Moses’s version, the girl’s father can demand the 50 shekels and then refuse to let the despoiler have her. And that’s following a seduction. If she was _raped,_ her family could have him stoned (though this provision was dropped over 2000 years ago, I believe). So don’t blame Moses for this, OK? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-forces-16-year-old-moroccan-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/615798.md?page=2)