Child Sexual Abuse Act

There was a new child sexual abuse act passed recently in Maldives.

The act contained many good things to help protect vulnerable children, in particular young girls.

However one article was included which stated that if a girl is married under sharia law all the other articles in the act no longer stood because she is no longer considered a child but an adult.

I think under Sharia law in Maldives the age of consent is12.  It might have been increased more recently by legislation in the parliament, but the general feeling here is that the new act may do more harm than good.

So this is one of the reasons we are here and this place is where we doing it from.

Whilst checking on the age for marriage on the web, I stumbled upon this item in another blog