The Hidden Girls of Honor - Part 1.
A teenage girl comes running along the quiet residential street, she has no shoes and screams for help.
A neighbor lets her in and calls the police.
The girl says that she was locked up and abused during the night, because the father had discovered that she has a boyfriend.
"He asked me if I was scared.
Then he hit me on the head and said that he would kill me with the kitchen knife ", she says.
No one knows how many children live under honor-related oppression and violence, but SVT's review shows that 67 out of 437 LVU judgments - 15 percent - are about children growing up with honor oppression and violence.
Usually the father who beats
The judgments reviewed by SVT apply to 100 children and teenagers in care.
Most are girls where the family has subjected them to physical violence.
Most often, it is the father who strikes, as the sole perpetrator.
A quarter of children say that their mother also strikes.
Several stricter laws have been tightened in recent years - against compulsory marriage, child marriage and female genital mutilation, and tougher penalties for crimes with honor motives.
Nevertheless, very few of the cases SVT has examined have led to a conviction for the assault, mainly because the children do not dare to testify.
- It is a massive pressure from the family, relatives and siblings that makes them take back, reduce, downplay the violence, says Devin Rexvid, researcher at Stockholm University, who examines the social services' efforts in honor cases.
Showered in ice cold water
A girl, who did not want to get married, says:
"Mom said, 'Instead of ruining my life, you better die.'
She put me in the shower with ice cold water.
Then she hit me with a metal spoon on the narrow legs.
And with a mobile phone cord over my back as if I were a slave ”.
Still, the girl takes back the testimony before the trial.
Previous studies have shown that honorable young people are often not prepared to seek help.
But they can be forcibly disposed of only based on reports of unrest.
- We see that even the elderly, girls up to 19 years, are taken care of.
It is seen as a last resort to save them from getting married or genitally mutilated, says Devin Rexvid.
Sara, 16, and her sister Sasha, 17, are two who have dared to tell about abuse and oppression at home.
Now the protected live in a family home.
Hear their story here:
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