A 70-year-old man married a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia, according to a Jan. 8 Fox 8 report. The girl's family sold her to the 70-year-old for $20,000. Of course this child bride situation has brought a lot of criticism from human rights activists around the world.
Apparently, the 70-year-old complained after he paid $20,000 to the girl's family, and then some time after their wedding, they took their 15-year-old daughter back to her hometown of Al-Hurath village in Jizan province. He felt ripped off.
However, human rights authorities believe that the 15-year-old girl and the 70-year-old man had a fight, and the child bride ran back to her family. Dr. Suhaila Zein al-Abedin, a member of the Saudi National Association for Human Rights, said,
"When you consider the very large difference in age, it looks more like this was not a marriage, but like the girl was sold. The girl’s parents need to be held responsible for this."This is absolutely true. This is not even a situation where the girl may have felt like she was in love with the older man and wanted to get married. Her parents sold her to him, and that is completely inappropriate.
Can you believe that a man as old as 70 married a 15-year-old girl that he paid $20,000 for in Saudi Arabia? Thankfully human rights organizations are working to help this unwilling child bride out with legal assistance and anything else she may need.
source news: http://www.examiner.com/
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