An Afghan girl sold as a child bride at six to cover her father's debts
This 2014 CNN news report tells the story of a seven-year-old Afghan girl. Her father married her off at the age of six.
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He did so to pay his wife's medical bills. US groups learned of her situation and stepped in, with money from an anonymous donor, to stop the marriage.
The report explains that such child marriages are common in Afghanistan.