{"id":260625,"date":"2016-10-22T14:10:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=260625"},"modified":"2016-10-22T14:10:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:10:33","slug":"tunisia-shocked-by-tv-hosts-marry-rapist-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/tunisia-shocked-by-tv-hosts-marry-rapist-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia shocked by TV host’s ‘marry rapist’ remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"
A popular Tunisian talk\u00a0show has been suspended after its\u00a0presenter appeared to tell\u00a0a young female guest to marry the man she accuses of raping her, and suggested she was to blame.<\/p>\n
The girl, named Hajar, said\u00a0she had been sexually abused by three different members of her family since the age of 14.<\/p>\n
Often crying, she also said she was\u00a0eight\u00a0months\u00a0pregnant by one of her abusers.<\/p>\n
It emerged during her appearance on Ala\u00a0Chebbi’s\u00a0show\u00a0Andi Mankolek,\u00a0or\u00a0I’ve Got Something to Tell You, that poverty had forced her\u00a0to give up school aged 14 to work on the family farm.<\/p>\n
She also said that her\u00a0father was frequently absent because of work, and that her relationship with him and her stepmother was poor.<\/p>\n
Hajar’s\u00a0elder brother, Allala, who appeared alongside her on the show earlier this month,\u00a0said he\u00a0had approached the show out of despair after\u00a0her father, ashamed at her pregnancy, had kicked her out of the family home.<\/p>\n