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A mother in Texas has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for allegedly allowing her 13-year-old daughter to marry a man who was 47 years old.Cherry Payton, 43, was sentenced to 30 years in jail in Fort Bend County last week for enabling her daughter to marry someone 34 years her senior, according to KIAH. In 2017, the daughter told her doctor that she was having sexual relations with “her spouse,” who was 34 years her senior. Payton allegedly stated that her daughter was married and that she had consented to the marriage since it was in accordance with their “religious beliefs.” Before telling her doctor, KIAH discovered that her daughter had been married for nearly a year. Payton and her daughter were involved in other suspected sexual abuse instances.
KPRC-TV says as deputies investigated the claims, they arrested the daughter’s husband, Steven Carty, 47. He was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Deputies also learned that there was no record of a marriage license in the county which established the marriage was not legal. KPRC-TV says the religion that Payton claimed to be part of the marriage was part of the Hebrew Israelites’ faith. In Texas, the age to get married is 18 but there are exceptions that could allow a minor to marry at the age of 16.
Payton is accused of sexually abusing a young child on a regular basis. She faces a sentence of 30 years in prison. KPRC-TV says the husband, Carty, has received two sentences: 22 years and 20 years for aggravated sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of a child. Both Payton and Carty will be required to register as sex offenders for the remainder of their lives.
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]]>Only after one year of lifting the ban, Jordan has tightened recruitment of Bangladeshi workers following a number of reports of sexual abuse of female workers and labour strike.
“Jordan’s labour ministry is following strict rules regarding fresh recruitment of Bangladeshi workers. But we are trying hard to melt the ice,” Lubna Yasmine, first secretary (labour) of Bangladesh embassy in Amman, told The Daily Star over phone recently.
On an average 700-800 workers went to Jordan a month in the first nine months of this year, but the number came down to less than 100 in October and also in November, said Mohammad Abdullah, managing director of Bangladesh Overseas Employment Services Limited (BOESL), the state-owned recruiting agency.
Jordan considers the reports on sexual abuse of female workers and labour strikes a threat to free trade agreement between it and the US that allows duty-free access of Jordanian garments to US market. That is why Jordan is not allowing fresh recruitments from Bangladesh, said the officials.
This followed a number of events.
Over 400 Bangladeshi female workers returned home recently as the garments factory that had employed them– Maintrend International — closed down following a series of strikes. Over 100 Bangladeshi male workers of the factory filed a case seeking compensation from the factory owners.
Bangladeshi workers along with Jordanian and Chinese workers of the factory went on a strike for nearly a month from mid-September. Earlier in June, around 700 workers of the factory had gone on a strike, which is illegal in Jordan. The demands of the workers included an end to beatings, forced deportation if workers cannot reach mandatory production goals and arbitrary wage cuts, and better dormitories and adequate toilet facilities.
Moreover, the US-based Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights reported sexual abuses of Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan female workers by managers of Classic Fashion Apparel Industry Ltd, Jordan’s largest garment exporter to the US.
Classic recruited around 2,000 Bangladeshi workers.
In June this year, a female worker from Bangladesh complained to Jordanian police that a Sri Lankan manager of Classic, Anil Santha, raped her twice in March and May at a hotel in Irbid, a Jordanian city bordering Syria.
Santha, 46, charged with rape by Jordanian prosecutors, faces up to 15 years in prison, if convicted. He denied the allegations.
There were also some cases regarding sexual abuse of Sri Lankan female workers by Classic managers.
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights said Classic managers raped at least 300 young workers since 2007.
It has also launched an international online campaign demanding protection of foreign workers in Jordan, removal of abusive factory managers and compensation for raped workers.
According to an official at the Bangladesh mission in Amman, 49 Bangladeshi female workers ran away from Classic following publication of reports of sexual abuse.
Requesting anonymity, another official said a Bangladeshi national, Rafiqul Islam, involved with the labour rights watchdog in Amman, instigated female workers to escape and make false allegations in exchange for big amounts of money. Classic filed a case against him in this regard.
Some other Bangladeshi male workers were also involved in such instigation, the official said.
Against this backdrop, the Jordan authorities have become very cautious about recruiting workers from Bangladesh, he added.
Jordan, which is now has around 30,000 Bangladeshi workers, had banned recruiting workers from Bangladesh in 2006. Last year, it relaxed the ban allowing recruitment of only female workers in garment factories, but now that also appears to have come to a halt.
Expatriates’ Welfare Secretary Zafar Ahmed Khan is going to Jordan for talks on the issue with the Jordanian authorities, officials said.
-With The Daily Star input
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]]>Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-5) caught Mehedi Hasan, 30, principal of Adarsha Women’s Technical College in Bagmara upazila, from the city’s bus terminal area in the morning and recovered a CD containing video footages of abusing the three from his possession.
Following Mehedi’s confession, Rab members seized a computer, a laptop, a high-resolution web camera and other CDs from his rented house at Upashahar in the city around 3:00pm.
Rab-5 Director Lt Col M Reazur Rahman told newsmen at a press conference that Mehedi, father of a son and a daughter, was arrested following a complaint from the family of two abused sisters in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj.
Mehedi, also a director of Bagmara Polytechnic Institute, during the press conference confessed that he developed extra-marital relationship with the elder one of the two in 2008 by promising her a job in his college.
When the incident of illicit relationship was revealed, the family had to send her abroad to save her from Mehedi’s clutch.
The accused also later duped the younger sister with the promise of a job in his college, the Rab director said.
He took video footages of raping the younger sister, who was married, several times at a rented room of Rony dormitory in the city.
Mehedi, however, did not give her the promised job and tried to blackmail her by threatening to spread video footages of her rape. As the incident surfaced, the younger sister’s husband left her for her relationship with Mehedi.
Recently, when Mehedi threatened the sisters of uploading the video footages on internet and publishing video footages in CDs in the market to destroy their lives, the family submitted a complaint with the Rab.
Asked by journalists about his reaction, Mehedi said “He had committed wrong”.
Of the three women in the video-footages, one was a call girl, he said.
Mehedi, having two master’s degrees in Bangla and Social Science, had long been luring women by offering jobs at his educational institutions into getting involved with him, the Rab director alleged.
“The brutality of Mehedi has surpassed the cruelty of Porimal Joydhor of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in Dhaka,” he said.
Mehedi was later handed over to the police with charges under the women and children repression prevention act.
-With The Daily Star input
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