Muslim girl in baptism row was fleeing an arranged marriage

by Tom Kelly
Daily Mail
February 14, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1329/muslim-girl-in-baptism-row-was-fleeing

Excerpt:

The foster mother struck off for allowing a Muslim girl to convert to Christianity took the child in after she was threatened with an arranged marriage.

The woman, a devout Christian, was asked to care for the teenager after the authorities learned of her abusive family background.

Her father beat her just for chatting to boys and warned he would haul her off to Pakistan to marry against her will, a friend claimed.

But council officials were angered when the girl chose to be baptised. They insist the foster mother failed in her duty to preserve the girl's original religion.

As a result, the girl was removed and the foster mother struck off the register last November, despite having worked with children for ten years with a perfect record.

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