Christian mother forced into Muslim marriage after landlord abducted her

Family fears for their daughter's life.

A Christian mother of three was reportedly abducted, raped and forced into a Muslim marriage by their landlord who had been maltreating her entire family. According to the news reports, the woman's whole family was working for the landlord for little pay, which recently he began not paying. The woman's parents were informed that she would be returned, but they were then threatened and discovered she was already married to the landlord and became his property.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "My sister has been missing for five days and police are refusing to register an FIR, my heart is broken. Our landlord is a cruel man and we have been starving since he stopped the little payment that was due to us. We have no power and have to face such injustice, please help us!" said her sister Iqra Sadiq, as cited in The Blaze.

Fouzia Sadiq, in her 20s, was allegedly abducted on July 23 by their landlord-employer, Muhammed Nazir, 55, in Pattoki, Pakistan, according to the British Pakistani Christian Association. She was already a mother of three and married to a Christian man, which prohibits her from marrying another even after being converted into a different religion, explained a representative of the advocacy group.

However, it was also reported that a police officer refused to help the family when they approached him, but now they are being aided by the Christian organization in search for a lawyer that could represent Fouzia in a Shariah court, which is mostly biased against non-Muslims.

"When courts make judgements in these cases more often than not, they forgo the age limit allowing forcible marriages of girls under the legal age of 14, discounting family objections and basing decisions on the testimonies of weeping victims," said Wilson Chowdhry, chairperson of the advocacy group.

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