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Child marriage is in the news again, this time involving a 12-year old Saudi girl and an 80-year old Saudi man. Press reports said that the girl’s father arranged for her to be married to the 80-year old man in September 2009. A 10-year old girl, a fifth grader by most educational standard, ought to be enjoying school life. In Saudi Arabia, a 10-year old school girl found herself the subject of a marriage deal. The Saudi daily ‘Okaz reported in August this year that the girl’s father wanted to marry her elder daughter off to this 80-year [...] As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Pujiono Cahyo Widianto aka Syech Puji, the 43-year old Indonesian cleric who has a 26-year old wife and who recently married Lutfiana Ulfa, a girl barely 12 years of age as his second wife with the declared intention to marry 2 more girls aged 9 and 7, the [...] 2 separate headlines in the Jakarta Post just caught my attention. The headlines reads: “Syech Puji acquitted from child sexual abuse charge” and “Cleric files report over extortion”. |
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