What kind of a "women's rights activist" works to marry a rape victim off to her rapist?

Rape victim marries jailed attacker to avoid Muslim shun
Shaikh Azizur Rahman In Calcutta

On the order of the court in Berhampur, Ahammad Shaikh, 30, tied the knot with Sabina Khatoon, 18, inside the local prison where he is serving his sentence.

Shaikh kidnapped Khatoon - the daughter of a daily wage labourer - from her village and raped her in a nearby forest in March this year.

Then, with permission from the court, an activist carrying out work among rural women, approached Shaikh inside the jail and informed him of the woman’s miseries after being ‘tainted’ by his rape.

The women’s rights activist suggested that Shaikh marry Khatoon.

Khatoon, who looked very happy after the marriage, said: "For that act [of rape] I hated him. Sometimes I felt like I wanted to tear him to pieces.

"But I have a different feeling for him now. I have forgiven him because he has chosen me as his wife. I have to love him now."

In recent weeks, at the order of the courts, at least three such marriages between rapists and their victims have taken place inside jails in eastern India.

Sigh.

• How Biblical. This is just what it says to do in the Old Testament. Why don't American courts enforce this?


• What kind of women's rights activist works to get a rape victim married off to her rapist? Does the international activist community know what this person is up to?


• The poor girl was delivered into the hands of her rapist by her very own parents. The man admitted "I took advantage of her weakness and assaulted her while she was alone." So now she gets to sit at her new in-laws' house waiting for the man has already taken advantage of her weakness once to come get her again. And the father who initially appeared to be on her side is the one that handed her over.