Parents beat Texas teen with broomstick, threw cooking oil, after she refused arranged marriage

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Parents beat Texas teen with broomstick and threw cooking oil at her after she refused arranged marriage, officials say

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Parents beat Texas teen with broomstick, threw cooking oil at her after she refused arranged marriage, officials say

Claire Z. Cardona, Breaking News Producer

The parents of a 16-year-old San Antonio teen are suspected of throwing hot cooking oil and beating their daughter because she refused to enter into an arranged marriage, officials said.

The girl's father, Abdulah Fahmi Kala Al Hishmawi, 34, and mother, Hamdiyah Sabah Al Hishmawi, 33, were arrested Friday. They have since been released on bond from the Bexar County jail.

The teen was missing for more than a month before she was found in mid-March, has been placed into Child Protective Services custody along with five other children from the home who are 5 to 15 years old. It's unclear if the other children were also victims of abuse, Sheriff Javier Salazar said.

At some point in mid-2017, a marriage arrangement was made between the teen's family and an adult man living in another city. As part of the arrangement, about $20,000 would change hands, he said. ... When the teen expressed that she did not want to be in the marriage, she reportedly had hot cooking oil thrown on her body, was beaten with broomsticks and was choked at least once "almost to the point of unconsciousness," he said.
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1. If the girl received permanent scaring from the hot cooking oil

I would hope the charges would be increased from the 3rd degree felony they are currently charged with.

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2. Just another reason why child marriage needs to banned by law.