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8-year-old girl divorces 50-year-old man

By Glen Ashman

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8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband AP -

CAIRO - An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday. Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child marriages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called child marriage a "clear and unacceptable" violation of human rights.

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).

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