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Forced marriage victim was taken from Scots home aged 13 and flown to meet stranger

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In May this year, a Scottish court issued a forced marriage protection order to the parents of a 21-year-old Indian woman whose parents were coercing her to marry.

The girl was raised a Catholic and was studying in the UK when her parents told her she must marry a 28-year-old American man and if she refused she would shame the family.

The parents told her: “After study every girl should marry”. Despite her protests that she was too young and wanted to study, the girl’s parents bought her a flight ticket to India and so she fled her university in England and travelled to Liverpool where she planned to drown herself.

She wrote a number of suicide notes but when she went to the docks, she couldn’t go through with it and fled to Glasgow to be

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