Texas police charge parents with AWFUL ABUSE of daughter who refused arranged marriage

by SooperMexican

Texas police were looking for 16-year-old Maarib Al Hishmawi, who went missing in January after leaving her high school.

And the FBI jumped in:

After two months, they found her, and then charged her parents with heinous acts of abuse, because she refused to marry a guy that had paid $20,000 for her.

More from KSAT:

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is sharing new, horrifying details in the arrest of a 16-year-old girl’s parents in connection with her disappearance. The teenager has since been found alive.

Authorities said Maarib Al Hishmawi’s parents — Abdulah Fahmi Al Hishmawi, 34, and Hamdiyah Sabah Al Hishmawi, 33 — attempted to force her into an arranged marriage and subjected her to physical abuse when she refused.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said the girl’s family had arranged for her to marry a man in another city and that a sum of $20,000 would be exchanged.

“This young lady, at various times over that time period was subjected to some pretty bad abuse because she didn’t want to be married to this person,” Salazar said. “Several times it was reported to us that this young lady was abused with hot cooking oil being thrown on her body. She was beat with broomsticks. At least at one point, she was choked almost to the point of unconsciousness.”

And she had 5 siblings. Who knows what they were subjected to. The family is from Iraq. Draw your own (non-hasty) conclusions.


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