Mother tried to sell her daughter for 500 euros
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The participants of the conference, which was held on Tuesday in Podgorica, unequivocally agreed that forced marriages of imperfect girls are a problem for the whole society, and not just for Roma families. However, the conference did not sound specific measures to combat this form of violence, and there were no answers to questions about how to prevent it. In Montenegro, there is no statistical data on how many Roma girls were forced to marry, but according to the organization Centar za Romske Inicijative (CRI) from the city of Nikshich, there are a lot of them.
Just the other day, on Tuesday, thanks to the rapid response of this organization and the police of Niksic, another such violent marriage was prevented. According to the organization CRI, the victim was a girl at the age of 15, which the mother intended to sell for 500 euros. The organization received an alarming message that a 15-year-old girl was being prepared for such a marriage, and she would have to leave for Germany. A ticket for the bus was already bought, the mother prepared a power of attorney for the bus driver so that the girl could cross the border. In a conversation with CRI, the girl's mother denied information about her marriage, but at one point she said that she was offered a sum of 500 euros.
At the moment the girl is with her mother, but under the constant supervision of the Center for Social Work. The organization CRI believes that this is a bad option, when such girls are returned back to their parents who are involved in forcing girls to marry.
The head of the Ministry of Human Rights Bilyana Pejović said that in Montenegro there is a Center for Social Work, which decides where the girl will be. There is also the possibility to place it in a foster family. The CRI said that it is necessary to act, because Montenegro has all the necessary mechanisms to protect the girls-victims.
According to the UN, the terrible statistics of child marriage in the world - every two seconds, one girl becomes a victim of forced marriage.
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