Find My iPhone helped a young British woman escape death and a forced marriage, after her family took her from Great Britain to Bangladesh to force her to marry .... his cousin, for her to receive British citizenship. The young woman was tricked into going on a trip, but instead she was taken to Bangladesh, where she was threatened that her throat would be cut and she would be dismembered if she refused to marry her cousin.
The young woman was still in permanent contact with a secret lover she had for 8 months, he alerted the authorities in Great Britain about the young woman's situation, they being aware of cases of this kind and taking everything seriously. The girl used the Find My iPhone application to locate herself, together with Instagram, and through WhatsApp she was in constant communication with the young man who alerted the authorities about the young woman's problem.
Find My iPhone Saved a Young Woman from DEATH and a FORCED Marriage
The rescue operation was coordinated by the British authorities, who worked together with the Bangladeshi police, the information regarding the location of the young woman being crucial for her rescue. On a day when the girl's mother was away to the neighbors to discuss the wedding party, and the father was away with the groom and other people to buy her a suit, the authorities descended on the location where the young woman was to take her into custody.
"A teenage girl used Apple's Find My iPhone app to help her secret boyfriend rescue her from a forced marriage thousands of miles away in Bangladesh. Details of her rescue by British authorities emerged at Leeds Crown Court. They were able to locate her after she secretly contacted her boyfriend of eight months in the UK before the wedding took place. The girl, now 19, used the Find My iPhone app and Instagram locations to secretly alert her boyfriend back in the UK, whom she hadn't told her family about. The court heard details about her father threatening to slit her throat and "chop her up" if she refused to comply with their demands."
The girl's parents were arrested, and her father stated that he would rather kill her and go to prison than live with the shame that she would not listen to his wishes and not marry his cousin. A British jury found the parents guilty of deprivation of liberty and the attempt to force their daughter to marry under their coercive force, and a long prison sentence will be imposed, according to the judge of this case.
