Parents who allow children to be subjected to violence abroad should be investigated.
The findings about Norwegian children exposed to violence in Quranic schools in Somalia have caused reactions. Researcher, Anja Bredal, believes the parents should be investigated.
She told NRK news that there is a lack of case law for such incidents in Norway, but it is time for them to be tried in court.
Bredal, who works at the Norwegian Institute for Growth, Welfare and Ageing (NOVA), has researched what is being done to children who are sent abroad against their will.
She considers the stories of a Quranic school in Somalia as a ‘particularly illustrative example’ of practices she believes should be investigated by police.
If the parents have knowingly exposed their children to this, it is punishable. If they only later learned about what the children were exposed to, they should have prevented it’, she said.
On Wednesday, two Norwegian-Somali youths told about life inside a Quran school in Somalia. The youths were beaten, locked up, and abused. The stories they told caused immigration minister, Sylvi Listhaug of Fremskrittsparti (Frp), to call several ministers together for an emergency meeting.
Attorney General, Saqib Rizwan, has worked on several issues concerning child welfare and immigration cases. He believes it isn’t unlawful to send children to a school abroad.
‘But if parents deliberately send the children to a place where they are aware that the children will be exposed to violence, it should be investigated,’ he said.
He believes such cases could be investigated under the law involving bodily injury, or provisions under helpless conditions, if parents fail to retrieve children after they become aware of the situation
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UK Somali teenagers taken 'on holiday' and forced into marriage
Figures show 100% year-on-year rise in forced marriages involving Somali children.
British Somali teenagers are being taken back to their parents’ homeland under the pretence of a holiday and then kept in detention centres before being forced into marriages.
Under the practice of
dhaqan celis, loosely translated as “the rehabilitation community”, Somali children and teenagers are routinely taken to the country, where they are often sent to “rehabilitation” centres.
The centres promote themselves as “re-education” schools to align young people with Somali cultural values and their Somali roots. The Home Office, however, says they tend not to deliver an academic curriculum and are in fact detention centres where young people are routinely subjected to physical, sexual and mental abuse. In some cases, those held against their will are told the only way out is to get married.
David Myers, joint head of the Home Office’s forced marriage unit (FMU) in the UK, said: “What we are seeing in these communities is that young people who have antisocial behaviour issues, are getting involved in gangs and drugs, and are being sent back to
Somalia by their parents for re-education and rehabilitation.
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