Child marriage to settle a debt: a CNN report
This CNN report tells of an 8-year-old girl who was forced to marry a 47-year-old man to settle a debt.
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The case raises two abuses at once:
- child marriage;
- parents using their own child to pay off a debt.
According to the report, Saudi law at the time did not allow this marriage to be stopped.