A 12-year-old Italian girl has been
taken from her mother and placed with her paternal grandparents
after the mother promised her in marriage to the brother of her
new Pakistani husband, the Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia newspaper
reported Thursday.
The girl is the daughter of two Italians from the southern
Puglia region, who got divorced before the mother married a
Pakistani man in Pakistan.
The girl's father reported the case to prosecutors who got a
minors' court in Lecce to strip the mother of her maternal
rights.
The Italo-Pakistani couple had also forced the girl to wear an
Islamic veil.
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