8-Year-Old Saudi Girl Seeks Divorce
Posted on: Sunday, 24 August 2008, 15:00 CDT
An 8-year-old girl is pleading to a Saudi Arabian court for a divorce from a man in his 50s.
The girl was married off to the man without her knowledge, reported the Saudi newspaper al-Watan. The child's father was behind the marriage while her mother is now thought to be pushing for an annulment, the BBC reported Sunday.
Child-protection organizations say Saudi children are sometimes given away in return for large dowries, or as a result of beliefs that marriage to cousins or other known persons will protect young boys or girls from illicit relationships.
Last April, a court in neighboring Yemen annulled the arranged marriage of another 8-year-old girl to a 28-year-old man.
Source: United Press International
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