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Court terminates 8-year-old girl’s marriage

SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni court ordered the marriage of an eight-year-old girl terminated on Tuesday because she had not reached puberty.

The court also ordered the child’s family to pay about $250 in compensation to the 30-year-old ex-husband.

Have you no souls? Are you completely dead at heart? There are a number of adjectives I would think of to describe the plight of an 8-year-old forced into marriage and raped, but “ODD” would never come into my mind. What’s wrong with you creeps?

K.M.

2 comments so far

I do not see any red writing here. and what is “ODD”?

Poor girl anyway, why did her ex-husband get $250??

- Posted by Tom Morgan

Oh I see. “ODD” as “in Oddly Enough.” Yeah not really appropriate - Perhaps more “Deeply Disturbing.”

- Posted by Tom Morgan

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