Arranged marriage is abuse. Jesse Bender, a 13 year old American Pakistan girl recently fled from her home to avoid arranged marriage. Bender who shared her fears with someone she met online was desperate to escape her home because she was threatened with a forced arranged marriage which was due to take place in Pakistan.
Jesse’s mother had reported her missing on February. 22, 2011. She told authorities that her daughter was upset about having to go on a two-month vacation to her father’s native Pakistan. What her mother did not tell the authorities was that she was scheduled to be married while on this two month vacations. Several days later, Melissa Bender told investigators she was worried her daughter ran off with someone she had been communicating with on Facebook.
Her statement launched a nationwide kidnapping investigation by the FBI, US Marshals Service, and multiple law enforcement agencies fearful that the girl was with an Internet predator. As detectives began to focus on the Bender family, they learned that a relative was hiding Jessie in the nearby town of Apple Valley out of fear that she would be taken tto Pakistan for an arranged marriage at 13 years old! What is wrong with our morals? Culture that abuses our children is immoral.
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