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Child Bride Bolts Wedding in Vain
12-Year-Old Marries Against Her Wishes; Turning a Blind Eye in Romania
By Dina Kyriakidou, Reuters
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Ana Maria Cioaba, 12, daughter of the Romanian king of the Gypsies, joins her 15-year-old groom.
SIBIU, Romania (Sept 29) - All 12-year-old Ana Maria wanted was to stay in school and have fun with her friends.
So when the Roma gypsy princess found herself being married off to a 15-year-old boy she didn\'t even like, she picked up the hem of her vast 4,000-euro wedding dress and fled the church as guests sang cheerful marriage songs around her.
The groom Birita Mihai looked stunned -- but his child bride\'s revolt at the weekend was shortlived. Her father, Romanian Roma king Florin Cioaba, had her brought back and she was promptly married against her will.
The bride\'s friends rallied for Ana Maria, chanting "Down with Birita." Her father was obviously embarrassed by her revolt but unmoved by their pleas or her tears.
Later that night, according to the king\'s own spokeswoman Dana Chendea, the groom\'s family proudly showed the wedding guests a bloodied bedsheet to prove the marriage had been consummated.
"She told me it was the worst thing that ever happened to her. She felt like a huge rock fell on her," Chendea told Reuters.
For girls in Romania the legal age of sexual consent is 15, and for marriage 16. "Legally it was rape," a friend of the bride\'s said.
Among Romania\'s Roma, estimated to number between half a million and three million, child marriages are common and authorities have traditionally turned a blind eye.
"She will leave school and concentrate on her job as a wife."
-Dana Chendea, spokeswoman for Roma king Florin Cioaba
Police directed traffic outside Ana Maria\'s wedding and took no action to prevent it. The Romanian government would not comment on the incident.
But as the ex-communist country prepares to join the European Union as early as 2007, things may have to change.
"I would expect the senior social workers and the police to move in immediately and to remove her from harm," European MP Baroness Emma Nicholson, an activist on behalf of Romanian children, told Reuters.
"Romania, as a candidate country, is obliged to act on this immediately," the British politician said from London.
Cioaba, whose authority is being challenged by a rival king, invited hundreds of guests to a three-day wedding party for which 12 pigs were slaughtered and 4,000 bottles of wine served.
The king told reporters: "Today is a really happy day for the royal house, one of the happiest of my life... It\'s better for the children to marry young."
Asked if he loved Ana Maria, her 15-year-old husband replied: "I guess I do."
Ana Maria moved to the groom\'s house soon after the wedding in the medieval Transylvanian city of Sibiu.
"She will leave school and concentrate on her job as a wife," the king\'s spokeswoman Chendea told Reuters. "She will help her mother-in-law cook and clean and raise her children. It doesn\'t matter what she wants."
Roma minority officials defended the child marriage.
"The princess\'s marriage was not set up by force. She is as precious to the king as his own eyes. He wouldn\'t have done something against her will," said Vasile Ionescu, of the Roma Centre for public policies.
"We must keep our traditions alive in order to keep intact our identity and to survive. It\'s immoral and dangerous to forbid a custom and no one has the right to do that."
Ionescu said he was confident the EU would protect Roma culture and suggested Romanian legislation be amended to allow Roma children to marry according to tradition.
"Implementation of human rights for everyone is essential for full entry into the European Union," Nicholson said. "Sadly, Romania still has a number of grave weaknesses which will hinder her progress unless urgently addressed."
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that is bad, but this made me laugh
"She told me it was the worst thing that ever happened to her. She felt like a huge rock fell on her,"
its just a weird experession
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I think that its crap. Not the story but forcing her 12 year old to marry against her wishes. I\'m against forced marriages to begin with and at 12 its even worse.
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Originally posted by Titan
I\'m against forced marriages
Personally, I\'m all for forced marriges, they rule
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She is very pretty.
The bloody bedsheet thing is just dirty.
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i am against marriage altogether. specially religious marriage.
Where i live, marriage is just a way to get some indirect money from your familly to start your "new life" and to get some privilege from the government tax budget. We\'re far from it\'s original purpose.
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Damn, that kid got some at the age of 15
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Meh. I first got some when i was 16. I dont regret it but im certainly not proud of it. The whole bloody sheet thing was just... ugh. It was a funny but semi sad (not in a crying sense). Shes pretty but that whole forced marriage thing is shit. I thought about it before and id like to see how it would turn out just for the hell of it, but its still ghey. That pic of the gurl crying is hilarious for some strange reason. Sad that kids have such a privelage and also that she will no longer be attending school.
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Originally posted by nO-One
Personally, I\'m all for forced marriges, they rule
Yeah, you say that when the chicks father has a shotgun pointed at your back :p
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Originally posted by Lord Nicon
That pic of the gurl crying is hilarious for some strange reason.
YOU ARE A SICK BASTARD
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This whole story is vile. 12 year old being forced into marriage? rape( age of consent is 15 not 12)? It\'s all sick. Forced marriages should have been outlawed everywhere a long time ago.
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Well, that certainly offends my viewpoint, but then, again.... 3 million gypsies? I guess I don\'t know enough about their culture and stuff to say.
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She needs a real man....like me. Hell....oh...she\'s 12. Sorry. I\'m leaving now. See ya.
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*fwap* *fwap* *fwap* *fwap*
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She\'s gonna be hot when she gets older. :D
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p.s. That guy\'s tux is awesome. I\'m totally sportin that to homecoming.
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I\'d hit...
*walks away slowly
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Originally posted by SwifDi
She is very pretty.
The bloody bedsheet thing is just dirty.
And if interpol want to track SwifDi on paedophile charges.. he lives in the US and if you email a admin I am sure they will give you his IP address..
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Originally posted by SwifDi
p.s. That guy\'s tux is awesome. I\'m totally sportin that to homecoming.
It\'s the shiny ruffles on his shirt. So gayishly vampirical, doncha think? ;)
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Originally posted by Titan
Yeah, you say that when the chicks father has a shotgun pointed at your back :p
why, if I was entering into a forced marrige it would probly be the chicks dad forcing her to marry me.
so he would just point the shotgun at her.
it\'s great to be a guy
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And if interpol want to track SwifDi on paedophile charges..
i didnt say he\'d do her, he said she was pretty. whats that make him a pedophile?
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How do people actually do what they\'re being "forced" to do unless its against the law. Like military school. The only way they would get me to go would to shoot me with a tranquilizer dart. Same thing with those boot camp people who yell in your face, I can\'t help but laugh if someone is yelling at me no matter how hard I try. But I guess in that country the king could have killed her for it.
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Originally posted by Nolaws
i didnt say he\'d do her, he said she was pretty. whats that make him a pedophile?
Regardless... Even if I would do her, I\'m not even 18 yet regardless.
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Originally posted by SwifDi
If you\'re going to put emphasis on a word by bolding it, at least spell THE WORD CORRECTLY. Oi...
Someone please tell me how this guy became a moderator? What\'s the prerequisite? Pre-school education?
He did spell it correctly, that is how we spell it in the UK.:)
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It\'s wrong!
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Not where I come from it isn\'t!
paedophile British English - pedophile American English noun [countable]
someone who is sexually attracted to young children
http://www.longmanwebdict.com/
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Originally posted by SwifDi
Regardless... Even if I would do her, I\'m not even 18 yet regardless.
Haha, now thats the spirit. Live every day like it\'s your last before 18.
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Pfft If I was her, I\'d rip the guys dick off.
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As I learned in health for rape (I seriously have no idea why they taught the guys this), twist and pull. Guess it came in handy. Sammy did a move on me and I tried that :p
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Originally posted by ViVi
Damn, that kid got some at the age of 15
15, here when I got my first piece. I was almost sixteen though, just a month or so shy.
She\'s hot, for a 12 year old.
You know what they say - if there is grass on the field, playball!
If they are old enough to sit at the table, they are old enough to eat..!!!
And many countless other sick jokes that really are disgusting.
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Originally posted by SwifDi
If you\'re going to put emphasis on a word by bolding it, at least spell THE WORD CORRECTLY. Oi...
Someone please tell me how this guy became a moderator? What\'s the prerequisite? Pre-school education?
hahahahahahah I thought that was hella funny. :stick:
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Originally posted by SER
hahahahahahah I thought that was hella funny. :stick:
Yeah even though Swifdi is talking out his ARSE !
ARSE <<<< UK Spelling ;)
Sorry Swifdi but wanting to having sex with a 12 year old makes you an paedophile.
Evolutionary Ladder
Wife Beaters
Cockroaches
Politicians
Paedophiles
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I\'m not even 18 yet, the definition of a pedophile is an "adult" sexually attracted to children.
I\'ll bonk your mother.
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Does your girlfriend know you would have sex with a preteen?
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Does she care? It\'s not like he is getting any off of her.
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I think vapor\'s like 16, I say let \'em hit it. When I was 16 I dated a chick in her early 20\'s, same age differance.
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Arrr me mateys
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Originally posted by theomen
I think vapor\'s like 16, I say let \'em hit it. When I was 16 I dated a chick in her early 20\'s, same age differance.
Nice. I wish i dated 20 y/o\'s some of those earlier years. I hung out with 20 y/o\'s and was not really with this 27 y/o but we were just really good friends with benefits. I still talk to her actually. Damn was she ever a cradle robber.
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and back to topic i think its messed up but thats their religion so go figure
other people s religions concern even crazier stuff then this - hell they kill each other over it - but as the article said things will change if they want to be europorized or whatever
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Originally posted by theomen
I think vapor\'s like 16, I say let \'em hit it. When I was 16 I dated a chick in her early 20\'s, same age differance.
I was sixteen hitting a 27 year old, so...
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You were bangin your Special Ed teacher?
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No, a special ed student
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aww swifdi we all know the truth LIC is Dad he was banging your mom.....