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Friday, April 18, 2008

Current Events: 8-year-old sues

In Yemen, Arabia an 8-year-old-girl is forced to elope to a man 22 years her senior (that's a man that 30 years old). True that she's underage, but still, cultures there are really strange. She tried to ask for a divorce to her parents but they refused. She asked her "husband" but she also refused. So she met some other lady and asked for her help and the 8 year old girl went to court. She sued her husband for abuse and surprisingly, she won.
Its amazing what kind of culture would force an under-aged girl to get married to a 30 year old man, and also amazing that she won the case with some help.