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	Child brides as young as 12 have been ordered to stay with the men they were forced to marry after European officials agreed to recognise the partnerships.</p>
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	It comes amid fears of a paedophilia epidemic inside European refugee camps after a pregnant 14-year-old girl went missing from a Dutch centre.</p>
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	Fatema Alkasem disappeared along with her 24-year-old husband in August and police are concerned the Syrian girl needs medical care.</p>
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	The Netherlands is facing an issue of providing asylum to young girls who are married in their homeland but are below the Dutch age of consent.</p>
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	Dutch asylum centres are reportedly housing 20 child brides aged between 13 and 15, while three a week on average are arriving to the country.</p>
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	The brides were granted legal permission to join their older partners after the country recognised marriages involving young teenagers if they are officially registered in their home country.</p>
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	But some have slammed the recognition by Dutch authorities, claiming it condones paedophilia because the age of sexual consent in the Netherlands is 16.</p>
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	Outraged Dutch Labour MP Attje Kuiken said: &quot;A 12-year-old girl with a 40-year-old man - that is not a marriage, that is abuse.</p>
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	&quot;We&#39;re talking about really young children, girls 12, 13 years old. I want to protect these children.&quot;</p>
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	The Dutch government is amending family laws so that reunification applications only accept marriages when both partners are at least 18-years-old.</p>
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	But Ms Kuiken called on the government to do more for young Syrian brides until the law is changed in December.</p>
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	According to Breitbart she said: &quot;The government should take them into foster care and protect them, because before the new law comes into force, they can still be subject to abuse.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/614083/Fatema-Alkasem-Child-Refugee-Brides-Netherlands-Paedophilia-EU-European-Union">http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/614083/Fatema-Alkasem-Child-Refugee-Brides-Netherlands-Paedophilia-EU-European-Union</a></p>
