Former Moroccan Minister Condemns Child Marriage as ’Legal Pedophilia’

The human rights activist is upset about certain practices in vogue in Morocco, including the marriage of underage girls. During a videoconference-debate organized on Tuesday on the issue of the death penalty by the research group on business and investment law of the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences Ibn Zahr in Agadir, she criticized the men who marry little girls who are not yet of marriageable age.

"When a man marries a girl of fourteen, fifteen or sixteen years old, and offers money to marry her and do what he wants with her after a Fatiha marriage, isn’t that legal pedophilia?" she asked.

During this videoconference, the coordinator of the Network of Parliamentarians Against the Death Penalty also criticized the men who demand that little girls wear the veil. "Isn’t the man who forces a little girl to wear the veil because he thinks she is (sexually) attractive a pedophile?" she deplored.