Victim must live as wife with rapist
(Thanks to World Net Daily for the heads up.)
A young Indian woman, allegedly raped by her father-in-law, has been ordered by village elders to live with him as his wife, said a report on Wednesday.
The Asian Age daily newspaper reported that Muslim clerics who served as village elders in Uttar Pradesh, India, decided that the woman's rape by her father-in-law had "nullified" her marriage to her husband.
The 28-year-old woman, the mother of five children, married rickshaw-puller Noor Mohammed about 10 years ago in Charthawal village.
The report said her father-in-law, Ali Mohammed, allegedly raped her while her husband was away at work nearly two weeks ago, but the husband ignored his wife's complaints.
It said the wife had decided to walk out on her husband, but family members pressured her to stay and the matter landed before the council of village elders.
The newspaper said clerics ordered her to stay with her parental family for seven months and 10 days to become "pure" again before taking up her new life as her father-in-law's wife.
It quoted one Muslim cleric as saying that on her return to her home, she would "then be like a mother" to her husband.
Poor American girls, all oppressed and stuff.
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