Parents are suspected of child marriage

Parents are suspected of child marriage

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full screen The parents of a teenage couple are suspected of child marriage. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

Last year, a pregnant girl in her early teens came to a maternity care center in Örebro County, after which the staff contacted social services with reference to the girl’s young age, reports SVT Nyheter Örebro.

She had then recently immigrated from another country in Europe and shortly after arriving in Sweden married a boy a few years older.

Now both the girl’s and the boy’s parents are suspected of child marriage, and risk imprisonment for up to four years. The girl’s parents are also detained, while the boy’s parents escape detention as the risk of them fleeing the country pending trial is considered low.

– Because they are resident in Sweden, we make that assessment, says Anders Persson to SVT.

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