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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

child brides

Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)
March 24, 2023, 4:23 am
A fake reality show trailer shines light on the real issue of US child marriage
Founded by a former Haredi woman, the organization Unchained at Last releases ‘Unseen Housewives’ to raise awareness that such arrangements are still legal in 43 states
By Jon Kalish
Nachman Helbrans pictured sometime prior to 2014. (Screen capture: Youtube/Windsor Star)
November 11, 2021, 1:09 am
2 leaders of Jewish Lev Tahor cult convicted of kidnapping, child exploitation
Nachman Helbrans, Mayer Rosner face up to life in prison in US for abducting 14-year-old girl and her brother in bid to return her to illegal sexual relationship with an adult man
By Luke Tress
A groom smashes the glass in a Jewish wedding, under the huppah (Mor Seban; iStock by Getty Images)
December 17, 2020, 7:43 pm
Police prevent ultra-Orthodox marriage of 14-year-old bride in Jerusalem
Parents of girl who was set to marry 24-year-old man arrested, daughter transferred to custody of welfare authorities; mother insists child was mature enough
By ToI Staff
Mahek Liaqat, a Pakistani Christian girl lured into a marriage with a Chinese national, shows her marriage certificate in Gujranwala, Pakistan, April 14, 2019. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
May 7, 2019, 10:54 am
Pakistani Christian girls targeted by Chinese as brides
Human trafficking, abuse cited as impoverished Christian families offered cash to marry off their daughters, some as young as 13
By KATHY GANNON and Dake Kang
Girls walk towards the site of an aerial food drop by the World Food Program (WFP) in the town of Kandak, South Sudan, May 2, 2018. (Sam Mednick/AP)
November 21, 2018, 7:26 pm
Child bride auction in South Sudan goes viral, sparking anger
Highest bidder for 17-year-old is a man three times her age who pays 500 cows, 2 cars and $10,000 for her hand in marriage
By SAM MEDNICK
The apartment where 8 children were found living after women in 'Taliban-style" Jewish sect arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of child kidnapping, neglect, September 4, 2018 (Police Spokesman's Unit)
September 5, 2018, 3:15 pm
2 ‘Jewish Taliban’ moms remanded on suspicion of child abduction, neglect
Two 13-year-old girls still unaccounted for; women to be held until Sunday
By ToI Staff
The apartment where 8 children were found living after women in 'Taliban-style" Jewish sect arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of child kidnapping, neglect, September 4, 2018 (Police Spokesman's Unit)
September 4, 2018, 12:06 pm
2 women from ‘Taliban’ Jewish cult held on suspicion of child abduction, neglect
Police say 8 kids are living in rundown Jerusalem apartment; 15-year-old daughter is married and mother is said to be trying to marry off 15-year-old son
By ToI Staff
Fadia Ammar Al Mohamad, who didn't meet her husband until the day of their wedding, stands next to the cot they sleep on in their tent. (L Marie/ Times of Israel)
August 1, 2018, 1:11 pm
Forced into abusive marriages, Syrian child brides increasingly turn to suicide
In Lebanon, young refugees are being married off by families in need of money and security to much older men who rape and beat them — and often consider them mere entertainment
By L Marie
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