10 Year Old Child Bride Returned To 80 Year Old Husband

by Earl Morningstarr

A ten year old girl has been married off to an 80 year old man in Saudi Arabia.

The girl had absconded from her husbands home and sought refuge with her aunt. However, the girl’s father located her last weekend and returned her to her geriatric spouse.

“My marriage is not against Shariah. It included the elements of acceptance and response by the father of the bride,” the husband told local Saudi press.

He also informed them that he was originally engaged to his wife’s elder sister but she wanted to remain in school so the father of the girls offered the younger child instead.

“Her father offered his younger daughter. I was allowed to have a look at her according to Shariah and found her acceptable,” he said.

One of Saudi’s chief cleric’s Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh recently gave this statement concerning child marriage:

“It is incorrect to say that it’s not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger,” said the grand mufti “A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she’s too young are wrong, and they are being unfair to her.”

“We hear a lot in the media about the marriage of underage girls,” he told reporters. “We should know that sharia law has not brought injustice to women.”

The Saudi marriage officiant Dr. Ahmad al-Mu’bi said in a Lebanese TV interview last year that it’s acceptable to marry a child bride as young as one year old.

“there is no minimal age for entering marriage.” he said “You can have a marriage contract even with a 1-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of 9, 7 or 8,”

“But is the girl ready for sex or not?” he continued. “What is the appropriate age for sex for the first time? This varies according to environment and tradition,”

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