Kmart is having a doomed-if-you-do, doomed-if-you-don’t dilemma after pulling a child bride costume from shelves across Australia. A counterpetition was also launched on Tuesday night, with more than 1500 signatures demanding Kmart put the dress back on shelves. “Each year, 12 million children (girls as young as 6 years old - the same size as this “costume”) are sold or married off by their family without their consent. That’s one million child marriages per month!” Shannon said in the original petition. “Child marriage means child abuse and torture in its worst forms - paedophilia, child rape, child slavery, child sex trafficking.”

Source: Huffington Post October 23, 2019 04:52 UTC