Creepiness in Seattle

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Enslaving them over here...

SEATTLE – Five Seattle-area immigrants from Afghanistan enslaved a teenage girl they brought to the U.S., with some forcing her to do chores and one — her 37-year-old husband — beating and sexually assaulting her, according to a federal indictment unsealed this week.

The girl is from an impoverished single-parent home in Afghanistan, and she was informally adopted by another family there that forced her to marry at age 13 in 2005, Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office, said Thursday. The girl's husband is Mohammad Atahee, a friend of the adoptive family; U.S. officials don't recognize the marriage.


They don't recognize the marriage, yet didn't blink at fact that this was a 16-year-old wife. But it's not like things are rosy in that region, so what happened to that proverbial police cynicism? You know, the thing that makes cops pull over black guys who drive nice cars?

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