Within America’s imported multicultural soup, the Hmong tribe is surely near the top of the scale of extreme behaviors, including shamanistic medicine, horse-eating, animal sacrifice, marriage by capture, polygamy, disinterest in obeying the law, a highly misogynist value system, and a dislike of education particularly for women.
In Milwaukee, a Hmong man, Thaying Lor (pictured), was recently sentenced for a crime that would be considered normal activity back in the homeland of Southeast Asia: child marriage by way of kidnapping. (Thx Refugee Resettlement Watch.)
Man gets 8 years for raping wife, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, June 29, 2010
A Milwaukee man convicted of sexually assaulting his wife, who was 12 when he abducted her into a Hmong cultural marriage in 1991, was sentenced Monday to at least eight years in prison.
The case of Thaying Lor, 43, drew nationwide attention among Hmong-Americans, who feared it could lead to unfair judgment of their culture and an upsurge in Hmong wives making similar claims years after their weddings.
Circuit Judge Kevin Martens, who presided at Lor’s weeklong trial in December, called it one of the most difficult he’d seen, “given the number of issues I’m asked to consider on both sides.”
Prosecutors and advocates for victims of domestic violence sought much tougher punishment, while Lor’s counsel and Hmong-American groups and individuals who sent dozens of letters recommended probation.
The case began when a bailiff overheard the victim testify in her divorce early last year about how she was kidnapped, raped and essentially sold into marriage at age 12. The victim never wanted to involve police out of respect for the Hmong culture, but the bailiff alerted law enforcement and Lor was charged 10 days later.
The woman, now 32, has a different last name than Lor and is not being identified because she is the victim of a sexual assault. She remains in the Milwaukee area, where she is raising the couple’s six children.
In a letter to Martens, she said she did not feel safe appearing in person because she and her family have been subjected to ridicule, ostracism and threats, including on Hmong radio stations.
“They have threatened to hunt me down like a squirrel in the woods,” she wrote.
She asked that he sentence Lor to prison as a message to other abused Hmong women who lack the courage to come forward.
Martens spoke for 90 minutes Monday before announcing the sentence. He stressed repeatedly that case should not be seen as only “the Hmong marriage” case, but considered for Lor’s specific behavior.
“It would be wrong for anyone to take this as an indictment of the Hmong community as a whole,” he said. […]
How can anyone not “take this as an indictment of the Hmong community as a whole,” since the woman said she was threatened by her tribe for not cowering in submission like a proper Hmong female? The case is an all-too-accurate window into one of the more rudimentary peoples Washington has dispersed willy-nilly into America through its harmful refugee policy. In fact, the New York Times has called the Hmong “the most primitive refugee group in America.”
An earlier report from the Lor trial contained some interesting detail about how the kidnap happened:
Man found guilty in spousal rape case, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, December 8, 2009
Last week, she testified that Lor had visited her family once or twice before offering to take her to the mall in May 1991, when she was in sixth grade. Instead, he took her to a relative’s home where another man was waving something overhead in a circle, a gesture she knew from Laos meant she was being taken from her family into a Hmong marriage. Inside the home, she testified, Lor raped her for three days as she cried and begged to go home. They were married in a Hmong cultural ceremony a few days later.
Below is a brief video (not connected with the previous case) of a Hmong immigrant family whose daughter was grabbed like an animal and taken away for marriage, like they weren’t in America at all.
Ain’t diversity swell?
