No, seriously. Stop doing that. Regardless of whether you are in a conservative country or a conservative country, child marriage is a stupid concept for many reasons.
You are not punishing the rapist at all and you are harming the victim instead. Forcing a rapist to marry their victim does not make the rapist suddenly care about their victim; rather it gives them incentive to just continue abusing their victim in many other ways.
In case some people did not notice it, rape is about power over your victim. Power to get them to bend to your will. Marrying a child off to the rapist in order to punish them affirms that they are the ones who have power and they will not stop harming others.
I am almost tempted to say that the best thing to do is vigilantism except that well, we are not fictional characters; we do not have the greatest super power of all, which is plot convenience and assurance that what we do is the right thing. The best I can offer is jail time to keep rapists away from their victims.
P.S. I never said that rapists are male and victims are females. Rapists can be women and victims can be male. #feminism
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