Data: More than 100 girls aged 12 and under forced into marriages in UK

As debate over mass Islamic immigration intensifies in Britain, government statistics are revealing that over 100 underage girls were forced into marriages to adult men, including more than 25 girls under the age of five.

In response to a Freedom of Information request from the Press Association, the United Kingdom’s Home Office (the rough British equivalent of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) confirmed that more than 100 children under the age of 12 were referred to a Home Office unit specializing in victims of forced marriages, according to The Telegraph. At least 27 children under the age of 5 were referred to the unit in the same period of time.

The Home Office refused to confirm the age of the youngest child referred to the unit, citing privacy and identification concerns.

In some cases, British women and girls are trafficked to the Middle East and forced into Islamic marriages there. Recent years, however, have seen an increase in the number of forced child marriages that have occurred entirely on British soil, with no overseas element. In 2022, for example, the Home Office recorded nine referrals of children under the age of 12 that took place entirely within the UK.

The number of referrals to the Home Office’s forced marriage victims unit has increased significantly in line with increased immigration into the UK, largely from Muslim countries.

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The alarming statistics follow the Home Office publishing pamphlets asking “asylum” grantees not to rape women and children and the exhaustive Rape Gang Inquiry Report published earlier this year, as Zeale News previously reported.

The 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry Report concluded that at least 250,000 British underage girls have been raped, gang-raped, sex trafficked, and tortured by Muslim men, primarily of Pakistani origin, over the past several decades. The earliest cases were found in the 1950s, but documented cases began increasing in the late 1970s.

Multiple victims testified that, as children, they were forced into marriages with adult Muslim men, with one victim sharing that she had been trafficked to the Middle East from her hometown in England and forced into a marriage with a Muslim man. One victim testified that her social services worker even attended her forced marriage to a Muslim man.

Many of the girls who were forced into marriages with adult Muslim men shared that the marriages were arranged once the girls became pregnant as a result of rape. In some cases, the rapists committed abortions using at-home materials like knitting needles.

Once married, girls were subjected to regular physical and psychological abuse, including beatings. Passports, credit cards, and cell phones would be confiscated so that the girls were completely dependent upon their “husbands” and cut off from contact with the outside world.

Some victims of forced marriages reported having been taken by their “husbands” to mosques, where Muslim imams would encourage Muslim men to rape and sexually abuse British girls.

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While statistics evince the dangers posed to the UK by mass immigration from Muslim countries, elected officials and policy analysts warn that the same horrors may soon arrive in the U.S. if stringent immigration controls are not enacted or are repealed by Democrats.

Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, told Zeale News, "Americans should treat the Islamification of Britain through mass migration and the resulting gang rapes and forced marriages as a blueprint for the U.S."

"Our country has also been subjected to weaponized mass migration. We are seeing the growing Muslim enclaves forming in Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas," she continued. "They are not assimilating into America but are instead pushing their culture and ideology. In fact, some openly admit their hatred for Americans and are winning more political power."

In July, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., brought a copy of the Rape Gang Inquiry Report to the floor of the U.S. Senate, urging that U.S. immigration policy be adjusted to ensure that similar crimes are not perpetrated by Muslims on U.S. soil.

“I wish I could say that the United States is immune to such dangers, but, sadly, what is happening in Europe is a foreshadowing of what is to come here in our own backyard if we are not careful,” the senator said in his July 16 remarks.

“You would have to be stupid to think that what is happening in Europe couldn’t happen here. ‘’Oh, it can’t happen in the United States.’’ It is happening as we speak,” he continued. “The same cult ideology that empowered the human trafficking of White women in the United Kingdom is alive and well here in the United States of America.”

Peter McIlvenna, chief of staff to Lord Pearson of Rannoch in the UK’s House of Lords, argued in a Daily Signal op-ed that Americans must learn from the Islamization of Britain or else face a similar fate.

“Americans, please take heed. The U.K.’s nightmare — decades of impunity shielded by political correctness — is a clear warning for your porous southern border and unchecked immigration,” he wrote.

McIlroy noted that many of the millions upon millions of illegal aliens who have flooded the U.S. in recent years hail from Muslim backgrounds and cultures that treat women — and white women in particular — as sexual objects.

“This is about protecting children regardless of perpetrators’ backgrounds. Britain’s belated probe illustrates the cost of delay: shattered lives and damaged trust. For the U.S., the lesson is clear — vigorously enforce laws, rigorously vet immigrants, and defend free speech against smear tactics,” he concluded. “Ignore the dangers, and your daughters will pay the price.”