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The Sick Way Rapists Are Avoiding Punishment in Turkey
- Anna Mae
- Sep 13, 2016
- 1 min read
''Around 3,000 offenders guilty of rape or sexual abuse in Turkey have avoided prison, simply by marrying their victims.
Addressing a parliamentary commission on sexual violence, Mustafa Demirdağ, the head of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals, reported that some of these marriages involved girls as young as 5.
Highlighting the scale of the injustice, Demirdağ described an incident where a girl was raped by three men. After one of the men married her, the sentences for all three rapists were lifted...''
by Yosola Olorunshola
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