“The man wedded the 14-year-old at an Islamic mosque in the Melbourne suburb of Noble Park in September last year when he was 34.”
Has the mosque been investigated? Shut down? If not, why not? After all, the judge said: “To say that you come from a culture permissive of child marriage carries no weight and provides no mitigation as regards your offending.” So should Australia condone a mosque that approves of child marriage and conducts ceremonies to marry children?
“Myanmar asylum-seeker jailed for marrying underage Australian girl,” AFP, September 21, 2017:
SYDNEY (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) – A Myanmar asylum-seeker was Thursday (Sept 21) sentenced to 18 months behind bars for marrying an underage girl in Australia in what is believed to be the nation’s first such prosecution.
The man wedded the 14-year-old at an Islamic mosque in the Melbourne suburb of Noble Park in September last year when he was 34.
Parts of the ceremony were recorded and found on his mobile phone, the Victoria County Court was told, with the man giving the girl’s mother gold jewellery worth A$1,480 (S$1,600) as a dowry.
“To say that you come from a culture permissive of child marriage carries no weight and provides no mitigation as regards your offending,” judge Lisa Hannan said at the sentencing hearing.
“While religious tolerance and a firm embracement of multiculturalism are cornerstones of Australian society, it is not mitigatory to say your conduct was permitted within the rules of Islam or any other religion or belief system.
“What you did was legally wrong and morally indefensible. The victim was entitled to a childhood you took from her.”…
notmoron says
Do the Australians authority think that is the only case in their country?
PRCS says
No, they don’t.
Child bride? No, these secret marriages are child abuse
Cases like that of the 12-year-old married to an adult male are all too common.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/child-bride-no-these-secret-marriages-are-child-abuse-20140214-32r44.html
Vajapeya says
Both good news and bad news here. Good one is Australia still has judges who still have a “pair”. The bad one is Sharia is now operating with impunity and It will not take long to proliferate and make Australis to “Australiastan”.
gravenimage says
Yes–glad this pedophile is in jail.
mortimer says
Isn’t it wonderful that Australia passed a law to stop the criticism of CHILD MARRIAGE?
Such idiots.
gravenimage says
What law is this, Mortimer? Is this judge hence breaking this law?
MARCO D says
AUSTRALIA IS NOT THE IDIOTS YOUR WAY OF DOMINATION AND BULL SHIT SICK WAY OF LIFE IS OVER WITH A COUNTRY AT A TIME- MOO- SLIM- TAKE YOUR ISLAMIC BULL SHIT BACK TO IRAN- LEBANON …. ISLAMIC DESTRUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE-ALL OVER WESTERN SOCIETIES. GO BACK TO THE SAND TRAP YOU CRAWLED OUT OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hector Archytas says
Why is there any religious tolerance ?
Need a religion of reference.
carol says
The judge said: “While religious tolerance and a firm embracement of multiculturalism are cornerstones of Australian society…”
Sounds good, but is it? If “religions” can be malevolent then WHY should we pat ourselves on the back for some blanket toleration?? Far from it. And why should a country be multicultural? A country can be comfortably insular and yet not be offensive or aggressive to others. Are countries no longer “allowed” their own little place in the sun? And who says so?
gravenimage says
A Myanmar asylum-seeker was Thursday (Sept 21) sentenced to 18 months behind bars for marrying an underage girl in Australia in what is believed to be the nation’s first such prosecution.
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Well, I’m glad he was prosecuted–but how can this possibly be Australia’s first case? Muslims have, I’m sure, been “marrying” under-aged girls there for some time.
More:
Parts of the ceremony were recorded and found on his mobile phone, the Victoria County Court was told, with the man giving the girl’s mother gold jewellery worth A$1,480 (S$1,600) as a dowry.
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Another “poor refugee” with enough money to pay for under-aged girls to rape…
Westman says
You don’t suppose some redbeards have married more than one underage girl in that same mosque?
gravenimage says
I’m sure they have, Westman. The Imams should be prosecuted, as well, and the Mosques shut down.
PRCS says
It’s not.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/child-bride-no-these-secret-marriages-are-child-abuse-20140214-32r44.html
gravenimage says
And yes–is Australia going to investigate this Mosque? Have they performed other illegal marriages? Will the Imam be jailed and deported? Will the Mosque be shut down? All unanswered questions.
PRCS says
Cleric who ‘married’ 12-year-old believed he had done nothing wrong
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cleric-who-married-12yearold-believed-he-had-done-nothing-wrong-20140402-35xqu.html
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, PRCS.
Peter Clemerson says
The Australian Marriage Act 1961, section 101.states
“Solemnisation of marriage by unauthorised person.
A person shall not solemnise a marriage, or purport to solemnise a marriage, at a place in Australia or under Part V unless the person is authorised by or under this Act to solemnise marriages at that place or under that Part, as the case may be.
Penalty: $500 or imprisonment for 6 months.”
The imam was obviously not authorised to conduct or purport to conduct a “marriage” which was illegal under Australian law. What will happen now that his action has been revealed.?
Bob says
Oh, GI, you will have your little joke!
gravenimage says
Sadly you are probably correct, Bob.
David says
Perhaps there will be a gang of guys named Bruce in jail who can convince him of his evil ways.
samdav7 says
This cleric and all Muslim clerics who are performing these under-age marriages should be arrested and prosecuted for braking the law and for Tax evasion, they usually get paid cash in hand for their evil services !
Sarah says
As an Aussie let me just say that the only thing that surprises me in this whole scenario is that one of our idiot Judge’s actually threw the book at this wannabe child molester for his crimes.
I also note that the child molester in question, sobbed in court like a small child when defending himself and his actions and was apparently, devastated at the idea of going to jail.
I also note that while the Judge has thrown him in jail – it still means that this animal is still in Australia.
The parents of the victim, the Imam and the child molester should have all gone to jail. The child should have been legally emancipated from her entire family and protected by the state with a new identity – and get her into the care of an Australian family who can raise her with our values and give her access to the rights and freedoms that she is entitled to as an Australian and as a child.
The parents of the victim, the Imam and the child molester, upon release from jail should then be immediately deported with a lifetime ban from ever returning to Australia.
Frankly, rather than have any of them sit in jail – I’d much rather see all four of them on a chain gang for ten years, working their fingers to the bone, building gas and water pipeline infrastructure across the great red waste, so we can eventually interconnect the entire nation and irrigate more of the land to make it usable.
At least we have the satisfaction in knowing that the child molester, once he’s in jail, is in for a really really rough time. A lot of traditional thinking men in jails who don’t take well, the idea of this pervert buying a young girl with some shoddy jewelry so that he can rape her to his heart’s content. Mark my words, he’s going to get doused in boiling water at some point, he’s right to cry himself silly at the prospect of jail.
Joe says
Islam has a tradition of selling the offenders into slavery rather than deporting them. If these civilized countries want to be more diverse, they need to break away from their narrow thinking and be more sympathetic to the norms of the culture they are using to become more diverse. Rape, robbery, and slavery are cornerstones of Islam, and they are self-funding activities.
carol says
Another insightful poster!
Bob says
Sarah, after the “chaingang” episode, deported!
Stan Lee says
Countries lowering their standards to import Muslims had better do so with eyes wide open. When anyone of them is admitted ,the admitting country gets the whole, irredeemable unit, hate for western standards and Christendom, 1300+ years of Koran observance to murder non-Muslims and specifically Jews, honor killings of especially Muslim girls who fall for non-Muslim men, no possibility of loyalty and respect to western host nation, and if arriving into a society with a kindly big heart, they will make a bee-line for the welfare line. Western standards nations need them like they need incurable diseases.
…Caveat Emptor!
Jesper Kraul says
The judge thinks that Islamic law is “morally indefensible”:
“What you did was legally wrong and morally indefensible.”
She must surely be condemned as an Islamofobe.
kardault says
BULL IT IS MORALLY INDEFENSIBLE ,, children have the right to grow and choose who they are with ,, 1 man 1 woman ,, not 1 man and 1 child woman.. YOU my friend need to study the Quran or if you are a muslim need to learn your host country is LAW not Sharia ,, be glad you are where you are and for the right to even be there ,, stop trying to change what we believe in to what you, they believe in
gravenimage says
kardault, Jesper is being ironic–he is *not* defending Islamic pedophilia.
Scarlet Pimpernel says
Getting married at 14 is not child abuse. It is culturally accepted outside Western civilization. The Virgin Mary was estimated to be 14/15 years old when she gave birth to Jesus. There is absolutely no warrant for Occidental civilization to legally demand a girl be 18 years of age. It is part of our ancient history and it is not child abuse. Just because some law as made to state it is illegal does not make it illegal. The law is an ass.
Euripides says
The simple fact is that you obey the law of the land you’re in. I’ve always done that in countries I’ve visited and I’m sure the same applies in the migrant’s own country. That principle cannot be varied – it’s the law.
As a migrant he has chosen to live under Australian law and was not forced to enter the country. There are plenty of Muslim countries that allow him to do what he wants.
mortimer says
Scarlet Pedophile, GET OUT OF TOWN. We don’t want your kind here.
carol says
Scarlet Pumpernickel revels in the blood of virgins!
gravenimage says
By these standards, Scarlet Pimpernel would say that child labor, slavery, and punishments like crucifixion are just fine now, because they were practiced in the past.
Here in the civilized world we have something called progress–something that Muslims–and, sadly, this poster–know nothing about.
carol says
Those child-brides had no fate of their own choosing. They were pawns to be nabbed and bagged and kept on a tight leash for the satisfaction of their “suitors”. In the past there may have been some excuse for this. Today it is female abuse.
kardault says
back in the day girls in the US were married and started having children as soon as they started bleeding,, well that ment 20 or more years of child bearing ,, They had 1 husband for life .. and I believe they were hard working, God fearing Bible believing people. There is an age when the female has grown to a mature age some quicker than others but these girls young women were not sold by their parents they had a choice.. https://www.thespruce.com/legal-age-marriage-laws-by-state-2300971 of course a 34 year old man is grown but the female isn’t
gravenimage says
Actually, girls in America being married off at reaching puberty was *never* the norm here, at any period.
Badger says
Of course they won’t shut down the mosque or proceed further against the participants in this crime. That is a step too far for the faint-hearted Australian authorities.
Nevertheless it is refreshing to see a judge who has the courage to perform his duty to society. A shaming contrast to the lily-livered British judiciary.
mortimer says
Islamo-misogyny, Islamo-pedophilia, Islamo-supremacism? ISLAMO-HEADACHES!
Mahendra Singh says
The 14-year old must be pregnant with another soldier for Jihad against Australia.