AFGHAN GIRL LOCKED IN TOILET FOR 5 MONTHS

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Afghan girl locked in toilet for 5 months: officials
AFP – Tue, 27 Dec, 2011

Afghan police have rescued a teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for over five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution, officials said Tuesday.

Sahar Gul, 15, was found in the basement of her husband's house in northeastern Baghlan province late on Monday after her parents reported her disappearance to the police.

"She was beaten, her fingernails were removed and her arm was broken," district police chief Fazel Rahman told AFP.

Three women including the teenager's mother in-law had been arrested in connection with the case but her husband had fled the area, he added.

The case highlights how women continue to suffer in Afghanistan despite the billions of dollars of international aid which has poured into the country during the decade-long war.

"The 15-year-old girl was brought to hospital with severe shock," said Pul-i-Khurmeri hospital chief Dr Gul Mohammad Wardak.

"She had injuries to her legs and face and the nails on her left had been removed."

Sahar Gul was married to her husband seven months ago in the neighbouring province of Badakhshan, but she was brought to Baghlan to live with her husband, said Rahima Zareefi, the provincial head of women affairs.

During this time her parents were unable to contact her, she said.

The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission logged 1,026 cases of violence against women in the second quarter of 2011 compared with 2,700 cases for the whole of 2010.

And according to figures in an Oxfam report in October, 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.

Sahar Gul's case comes after a woman known as Gulnaz was pardoned and released earlier this month after spending two years in prison for "moral crimes".

She was jailed after she reported to police that her cousin's husband had raped her. Gulnaz gave birth to the rapist's child in prison.

Last month, the United Nations said that a landmark law aiming to protect women against violence in Afghanistan had been used to prosecute just over 100 cases since being enacted two years ago.

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[IronSheik]

American Man wanted for allegedly locking crying toddler in garage
ABC- Wednesday, December 28, 2011
GRAND TERRACE, Calif. (KABC) -- Authorities are searching for a man who they say left his 2-year-old daughter locked in a residential garage with the lights out.

Officials said Terrence Ford was in charge of taking care of his daughter at a home in the 22400 block of Terrace Pines Drive in Grand Terrace while her mother went to work.

Next door neighbor Edwin Gomez said that's not what happened.

"I guess the baby was crying too much and what he did was put her in the garage," said Gomez, who spoke to the child's grandmother. "What she told us was he turned the light off and left the baby there."

The toddler's grandmother said she went to check on her granddaughter and found her locked away.

The grandmother told investigators she went to find Ford after discovering the girl.

"She went into the home and found the child's father, Terrence Ford, upstairs apparently eating and watching television," said Jodi Miller of the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department.

Investigators said Ford ran from the home after the victim's grandmother told him she had contacted the authorities.

Ford is facing child neglect charges. He was last seen driving away in a white Toyota 4Runner with the license plate number 4UAA589.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department at (800) 782-7463.

(Copyright ©2011 KABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)

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This thread. Too much hurt. No more.

[Beans]

Epic

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8| ...you, uh, ok there Beans?

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8| ...you, uh, ok there Beans?

she's been locked in the bathroom for five months so I don't expect her to be ok at all
poor thing

[Beans]

Epic

8| ...you, uh, ok there Beans?

Yeah,i am all good Alpha. I didnt read the stories. I was laughing at the merged titles of the stories.

[IronSheik]

They were not merged I am simply making a stand for biased fox news style articles being shown. I did that on purpose beans.

[Beans]

^^^ I thought there merged threads but yeah. That is what made me laugh.

[IronSheik]

No I am not an agreesor, I'm a defender my days of infiltrating and instigating I stopped a very long time ago. Whatever I do is not to instigate or be an aggresor please don't think that ukhti

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Yup yup! I'm not surprised. That area, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and many of the Arabian countries have domestic violence issues. In India, I believe even the in-laws are allowed to talk shit to the wife.

[kambuli]

Ironshiekh,

You were thinking the same way as me, why would the action of one person or one family be marred to the whole Afghan people or most of the time to the all muslims and Islam Sick sick and sick..

[ToughGong]

American Man wanted for allegedly locking crying toddler in garage
ABC- Wednesday, December 28, 2011
GRAND TERRACE, Calif. (KABC) -- Authorities are searching for a man who they say left his 2-year-old daughter locked in a residential garage with the lights out.

Officials said Terrence Ford was in charge of taking care of his daughter at a home in the 22400 block of Terrace Pines Drive in Grand Terrace while her mother went to work.

Next door neighbor Edwin Gomez said that's not what happened.

"I guess the baby was crying too much and what he did was put her in the garage," said Gomez, who spoke to the child's grandmother. "What she told us was he turned the light off and left the baby there."

The toddler's grandmother said she went to check on her granddaughter and found her locked away.

The grandmother told investigators she went to find Ford after discovering the girl.

"She went into the home and found the child's father, Terrence Ford, upstairs apparently eating and watching television," said Jodi Miller of the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department.

Investigators said Ford ran from the home after the victim's grandmother told him she had contacted the authorities.

Ford is facing child neglect charges. He was last seen driving away in a white Toyota 4Runner with the license plate number 4UAA589.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department at (800) 782-7463.

(Copyright ©2011 KABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?secti ... id=8483169

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the person only quoted an article with no personal commentary, how'd you manage to extrapolate that he/she is trying to mar all afghans and by extension islam? i don't know about you but a story about a girl being locked in a bathroom for 5 months is pretty newsworthy regardless of country of origin. there's defensive, and then there's ridiculous.