A Bangledeshi couple has been placed
under investigation for trying to force their 14-year-old
daughter into an arranged marriage last year, legal sources said
Friday.
The pair, aged 44 and 40, are under investigation on suspicion
of causing undue psychological harm in the teenager, who
rebelled against the strict Islamic code she was expected to
adhere to, sources said.
They allegedly forced her to wear an Islamic veil, monitored her
use of phones and the TV, stopped her frequenting her Italian
friends after school, beating her when she refused to carry out
their orders.
The family wanted her to marry a man they had chosen, police
said, and ignored her dreams of becoming a surgeon.
When they were on the verge of taking her to the arranged
marriage in Bangladesh the girl fled her home and went to the
police who placed her in a shelter.
Her parents have been served a restraining order.
An 18-year-old Pakistani-Italian woman, Saman Abbas, was
murdered, allegedly by her uncle, after refusing an arranged
marriage in Pakistan at Novellara near Reggio Emilia last year.
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