Amina Filali, a 16 year old girl from Morocco Africa committed suicide last week. She took her own life after being raped and forced to marry the rapist. In Morocco, rape laws state that if a woman or girl is raped, and if the accused rapist agrees to marry her, the rapist will have the charges dropped. After being brutally beaten by her future husband, Amina ate rat poison. She later vomited to death in the streets of Larache. "We need to study in-depth the situation with the possibility of increasing the penalties as part of a reform," said El Khalfi, the communications minister. "We cannot ignore this tragedy." Protesters gathered to try and get reform out of the African government in hope that a tragedy like this one will never have to happen again.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/17/world/africa/morocco-child-rape/index.html
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