Stop Child Brides: Saudi child-bride hides on wedding night to avoid 90-year-old "husband"

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Saudi child-bride hides on wedding night to avoid 90-year-old "husband"

Pedophile slave-owners seem to have no age limit:

"A 90-year-old Saudi Arabian is suing his 15-year-old child-bride's family because she hid herself in the bedroom on their wedding night. The terrified teen locked the door from the inside so that her new husband could not enter on their first night as a married couple. Two days later she fled back to her parents’ home, Daily Mail reported. The elderly man now wants his money back as he claims he paid the parents 10,767 pounds (about $17,500) for the teenager for the marriage."

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Child Brides = Child Slavery

Save the Children considers child brides to be one of the most prevalent forms of child slavery :
Forced child marriage – Forced marriage occurs when at least one partner does not give consent and is coerced into marrying. Save the Children (2007: 9) says that: “the forced marriage of children takes place in many different cultural, political and economic situations, and involves boys as well as girls. However, girls are undoubtedly the most affected and suffer the most severe consequences. They are frequently intimidated, but also abducted, raped and sometimes murdered. A girl or woman who is forced to marry is usually a slave, forced to live and sleep with her husband, and often physically confined indoors.” Forced marriage is most common in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa, including Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda.

Videos

Ujeli: A Child Bride in Nepal
Production Year: 1992
Length: 59 minutes
Language: English subtitles
From UNICEF

Ten-year-old Ujeli lives in Nepal with her parents and brother. Against the advice of her teacher and a doctor, who warn about the dangers of early childbearing, Ujeli’s parents arrange for her to get married. Nepal has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, and 40 per cent of the women are married before the age of 14. Marriage at a very young age excludes most women from the school system, and as in Ujeli’s case, children take on adult responsibilities.
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Child Brides Are The Backstory In Die By Wire

All of my thrillers have some sort of non-fiction historic, cultural or scientific backstory to underpin the action and help offer another dimension for the reader.

In my latest novel, Die By Wire's Heroine Mira Longbow is sent to Amsterdam to end a global child-smuggling ring. But discovers an even more diabolical plot.

The descriptions of global child bride smuggling described in the book are well-researched and accurate. So are the horrible physical and psychological consequences. And the shameful difficulty in stamping it out.

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