Sunday, February 27, 2011

Married at 13 to 60-year-old man, abandoned at 30, woman now lives on streets of Saudi Arabia...


When she was 13-years old, Salma (full name withheld) from Saudi Arabia was forced to marry a man aged over 60.

The man paid her father a dowry of SR250,000 ($68,000), but Salma says it was like she was actually sold.

Salma, now in her 30s, has no home and is deprived of seeing her six children following her divorce. When she tried to take them, she was thrown in prison for six months.

As if all this was not enough. After she was divorced and her children taken away, her father tried to sell her again - this would-be husband refused to offer more than SR100,000.

But it was her not her father who turned down that offer. Feeling that she had enough, she packed and fled her home. More...

Don't miss:
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  2. 80-year-old Saudi marries 14-year-old girl...
  3. Child brides, honour killings and forced suicides in Turkey...
  4. 12-year-old girl raped by 9 men in Afghanistan...
  5. Saudi : my mother goaded me to have sex with my "bewildered" 12-year-old bride... 

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