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Saved or exploited? Dutch alarm rises over child brides from Syria.

October 20, 2015Belief

At 14 years old, one woman tells authorities she has a son. Others, pregnant, have gone missing from refugee centers.

Syrian refugees disembarked from a Greek ferry near Athens on June 14, 2015. Over 1,800 predominantly Syrian refugees and other immigrants who crossed the sea from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Lesbos were ferried to Athens after the Greek auth

The Greek island of Lesbos is being overwhelmed by refugees

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