(CBC) A Quebec youth court judge has removed a 16-year-old girl in Victoriaville from her family after she was forced into a marriage with an older man who insisted she wear a hijab, rifled through her cellphone and controlled who she could see.
The girl was so afraid in the weeks before the ceremony was to happen last spring that she ran to a neighbour’s house and locked herself in a bedroom.
After a noisy and violent confrontation between the neighbours and the girl’s family, police escorted the girl to safety.
In July, a youth court judge granted the girl’s request to be placed in hiding with a foster family until she turns 18.
