USA: Afghan Immigrants Abuse and Enslave 13-Years Old Girl
October 18, 2008
I wonder if the adults in question, who abused and colluded in the rape of this girl, gained admittance to the USA as refugees fleeing political or religious persecution in Afghanistan. In any case, these folks clearly deserve to be deported for what they’ve done. If they end up suffering some cruel fate there, it will be of their own making.
Prosecutors: Afghan girl enslaved in Seattle area
GENE JOHNSON (Associated Press)
Five Seattle-area immigrants from Afghanistan enslaved a teenage girl they brought to the U.S., with some forcing her to do chores and one — her 37-year-old husband — beating and sexually assaulting her, according to a federal indictment unsealed this week.
The girl is from an impoverished single-parent home in Afghanistan, and she was informally adopted by another family there that forced her to marry at age 13 in 2005, Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said Thursday. The girl’s husband is Mohammad Atahee, a friend of the adoptive family; U.S. officials don’t recognize the marriage…
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