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Seventeen-year-old Jessie faced being forc … Seventeen-year-old Jessie faced being forced into marriage to her 40-year-old cousin in Bangladesh. She begged the British Consulate in Dhaka for help and officials stepped in. She is just one of an estimated tens of thousands of British women at risk of being forced into marriage.
Here is her story.
Alan Morrison, the British Consul in Bangladesh, says his team meet a girl like Jessie every week.
Born in Britain but living in rural Bangladesh and promised in marriage to a much older man. promised in marriage to a much older man.
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