The marriage of a 90-year-old man to a 15-year-old girl has sparked condemnation from human rights and social media activists throughout Saudi Arabia, while the groom insists that he has committed no crime.
The girl, who was sold by her parents for almost $20,000, reportedly became terrified of the man on their first wedding night.
After locking herself in her room for two days, she managed to escape and return to her parents. In an interview, the 90-year-old man insisted that his marriage was “legal and correct,” and that he had paid a dowry of $17,500 to marry her, pan-Arabic news website Al Arabiya reported.
He said that on his first night with the bride, she went into the bedroom before him, locking the door from the inside so he could not enter, making him “suspicious about some kind of conspiracy” between the bride and her mother.
Friends of the bride’s family said that she was frightened on the wedding night, and escaped to her parents’ house after locking herself in the room for two consecutive days.
The man has vowed to sue his in-laws to return either the girl or the dowry. Source...
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The girl, who was sold by her parents for almost $20,000, reportedly became terrified of the man on their first wedding night.
After locking herself in her room for two days, she managed to escape and return to her parents. In an interview, the 90-year-old man insisted that his marriage was “legal and correct,” and that he had paid a dowry of $17,500 to marry her, pan-Arabic news website Al Arabiya reported.
He said that on his first night with the bride, she went into the bedroom before him, locking the door from the inside so he could not enter, making him “suspicious about some kind of conspiracy” between the bride and her mother.
Friends of the bride’s family said that she was frightened on the wedding night, and escaped to her parents’ house after locking herself in the room for two consecutive days.
The man has vowed to sue his in-laws to return either the girl or the dowry. Source...
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