Parents in Hyderabad are SexTrafficking Their Daughters’ Into Pretense “Marriages” for a Night

This photo is not of Tasleema. It is 14-year-old child bride Laxmi from Kamkheda village, in Rajasthan, on her wedding day on May 7, 2011.

Tasleema is a 14 year old school girl from the city of Hydrebad in India, whose mother sold her in “marriage” to 61-yer-old man from Oman for $700. Tasleema had got ready for school, when her mother took her to this man’s apartment and told her that she’d be getting “married” to him immediately.  She was also “divorced” the same day.  Her mother left Tasleema in the hotel for two nights during which time the man raped her repeatedly.  Tasleema who was in great pain from the repeated sexual assault managed to call her uncle for help who got the man and her mother arrested.

But Tasleema was thrown out of the family home because they said she had brought them shame. Her 16-year-old sister Naseem was also thrown out for supporting her. Tasleema’s school expelled her.

Tasleema says “If I had known that my mother would have also been arrested, I would have never called my uncle. I didn’t want any trouble for her … it was so painful that I didn’t know what else to do.”

Taslima’s case is not unique. Wealthy men from Arab countries started coming here since the 1970s, looking into poor Muslim neighborhoods in Hyderabad to buy “virgin brides” who are as young as 11 or 12.  But over the past few years this city has become a child sextrafficking market with parents bargaining away their underage girls for a few days of “marriage.”  A “husband” pays between $500 and $1,500 for a “wife.” The money is shared by the girl’s family, the marriage broker and the qazi, the Muslim judge who performs the wedding.

Full report here http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/10/13/indias_prostitute_brides_girls_raped_as_temporary_wives.html

Also see link below on a tradition of sextrafficking of girls by their families in certain communities like the Bedia in India. These girls are not allowed to get married, but support the family for as long as they can.

They Prostitute Their Girls: The Bedia

Yet another form of sextrafficking in India is “bride trafficking” where girls are sold by their parents to families of men who can’t find brides because the sexratio for girls in their region has dropped so much.  These girls are gang raped by all the men in the family they marry into, used for reproduction and then resold are “brides” to other families. Below is the link to our post on this

Brides Bought, Sold and Resold

College student survives sickle attack by Stalker -Times of India

14 October Hyderabad

An engineering student who was being stalked and sexually harassed by another student, was attacked by him with a sickle. She survived the attack, though her attacker died after consuming poison. The newspaper link below reports this as the crime of  “jilted lover,” which unfortunately is still the language used for stalking and sexual harassment in India, and needs to change fast!
http://m.timesofindia.com/City/Hyderabad/Jilted-lover-attacks-girl-with-sickle-commits-suicide/articleshow/44800955.cms

Hyderabad woman abducted and gang #raped by 4 auto drivers

27 August 3014, Hyderabad

A woman travelling with her husband in an auto was kidnapped by the driver and four other auto drivers, who then took her to an isolated spot and gang raped her. Prior to her abduction they robbed and beat up her husband.

http://m.timesofindia.com/city/hyderabad/4-auto-drivers-held-for-raping-married-woman/articleshow/41023055.cms

Another Woman Burnt to #Death for #Dowry in #Hyderabad

Hyderabad, June 6, 2014.

24-year-old housewife, A. Swati who was being harassed for more dowry was burnt to death by her husband and in-laws.  Swati’s parents had already given the in-laws 7 lakhs ($14,000/-) in cash and 5 kgs gold in dowry.  However, they had been demanding more.   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Woman-burnt-alive-for-dowry-in-Hyderabad/articleshow/36112359.cms

 

Indian Engineer Murdered By Her Parents for Marrying the Man She Loved!

Hyderabad, March 24, 2014

Deepthi and Kumar on their wedding day

25 year old Pachala Deepthi had joined HCL technologies in Hyderabad in 2010 soon after completing her graduation in engineering.  There She fell in love with another software engineer Anantagiri Kiran Kumar.  In 2013 the couple decided they wanted to get married.  By then Kumar had moved to the U.S. to work with a multinational company.  While his parents accepted the alliance, Deepthi’s family did not and did not attend the wedding.  Later however, they told her that they had changed their mind, and met with the young couple and some of their friends.  Then they told their daughter that they wanted her to visit them.  There they strangled her to death, and hung up her body to make it look like a suicide.   The police have said this is premeditated murder, a case of “honor killing” and are search for the parents who are absconding.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Techie-murdered-by-parents-in-suspected-honour-killing/articleshow/32575093.cms