Girl of 8 seeking divorce
13/04/2008 16:57 - (SA)

Sana'a - An eight-year-old girl has sought the help of a judge to seek a divorce after two months of forced marriage to a 30-year-old man in Yemen, said press reports on Sunday.

Nojoud Muhammad Nasser lodged a compliant at a court in the capital, Sana'a, last week against her father who forced her to marry a man 22 years her senior, and asked the judge to secure her divorce.

Presiding judge Muhammed al-Qadhi ordered the father and husband to be arrested after he heard her testimony in which she accused her husband of sexual and domestic abuse. The father was later released due to health problems.

"He used to do bad things to me, and I had no idea as to what a marriage is," the child-wife told the Yemen Times about her husband.

"I would run from one room to another in order to escape, but in the end he would catch me and beat me and then continued to do what he wanted," the girl said.

"Whenever I wanted to play in the yard he beat me and asked me to go to the bedroom with him. This lasted for two months."

Early marriage is prevalent in rural and urban areas of this impoverished Arab country as no law sets the age of marriage.

just fucking disturbing..

upside-there is a judge out there with some common sense.

downside-he's on the other side of the freaking planet. ~sigh~

8???!!!

What kind of sick bastard thinks it's alright to marry and have sex with an 8 year old?

The person who married them should be in jail asswell. Even a child being married at twelve is ridiculous and makes Iran or Yemen or anywhere it happens a pedophile state in my opinion.

europe and america used to be the same way. plenty of under 16 year old were married off in the olden days.
religious, and economic bullshit they both sit on.

PrimiteMan,

In Europe chidldren, especially of the nobility were often married quite young. These were political marriages and they were never consumated with brides as young as eight years old. Most times the bride and groom didn't even see each other for years after the marriage vows, usually taken by proxy, were spoken.

PrimiteMan,

In Europe chidldren, especially of the nobility were often married quite young. These were political marriages and they were never consumated with brides as young as eight years old. Most times the bride and groom didn't even see each other for years after the marriage vows, usually taken by proxy, were spoken.

That's exactly right, fellow historian person.

Richard II, King of England, married a 7 year old princess of France, Isabella.The marriage was never consummated, tho, due to an unfortunate circumstance of him being forced to abdicate, and he was later conveniently murdered.
He was such a studmuffin:

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/650/richardiiofenglandfo1.jpg


...that I'm sure he broke toddlers' hearts all over Europe. Isabella was certainly the lucky one.

One time walking in Ottawa promoting a chimney repair business of mine. I came across a large group of very young girls under a car port wearing lingerie. As I got close an old woman sent them inside the home and told me to go away in some language.


The next day I knocked on the neighbors door across the street and ask her if she didn't realize what is going on there. At that moment there was a limo type of vehicle park outside the home. She said there's allot of important VIP looking people visiting there.


I told her I think those girls are victims of a sex trade and she should inform the police since she can help these girls better by being the neighbor across the street, and left my contact information if the police wanted it.


A few months later a bust happened and it was exposed. But the RCMP had to give the little girls back because they are embassy staff. The RCMP has refuse to identify the embassy fearing public retaliation against these molesters.


These girls have called local police in the past from embassies but supposedly theres nothing that can be done.


(It was probably the Tali ban but it could be Iran too.)

What kind of sick, perverted pedophile consumates a marriage with an eight year old? What kind of sick father and mother allow this to happen and even aid in the marriage and forcing of the girl to live with a twenty eight year old man?

Sick................Sick..............Sick




A Yemeni court on Tuesday granted a divorce to an eight-year-old girl whose unemployed father forced her into an arranged marriage this year, saying he feared she might be kidnapped.
"I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school," Nojud Mohammed Ali said, after a public hearing in Sanaa's court of first instance.

Her former husband, 28-year-old Faez Ali Thameur, said he married the child "with her consent and that of her parents" but that he did not object to her divorce petition.

In response to a question from Judge Mohammed al-Qadhi, he acknowledged that the "marriage was consummated, but I did not beat her."

Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, has no law governing the minimum age of marriage.

Nojud was a second grader in primary school when the marriage took place two and a half months ago.

"They asked me to sign the marriage contract and remain in my father's house until I was 18. But a week after signing, my father and my mother forced me to go live with him."

Nojud's father, Mohammad Ali Al-Ahdal, said he had felt obliged to marry off his daughter, an act he claims she consented to.

He said he was frightened after his oldest daughter had been kidnapped several years ago and later married to her abductor. He said the same man then kidnapped another of his daughters who was already married and had four children, resulting in him being jailed.

Dressed in traditional black, Nojud said she would now go to live in the home of her maternal uncle and did not want to see her father.

The girl's lawyer, Shadha Nasser, said Nojud's case was not unique. "I believe there are thousands of similar cases," she said, adding that civil society groups are pressing parliament to set the minimum age for marriage at 18.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080415185328.c823bb5i&show_article=1

8???!!!

What kind of sick bastard thinks it's alright to marry and have sex with an 8 year old?


Uhhhhh...........that great conservative stalwart Mark Foley? Naaah. He just wanted to screw young male pages, not girls.

Uhhhhh...........the racist United States Senator and hater of all things 'liiibrul' (and also a pedophile) Strom Thurmond? Naaaah. He just had sex with a 15-year old black girl and impregnated her.

Uhhhhh...........that great man 'o god David Koresh? Naaah. He waited till the girls were 14 or so.

Uhhhhh...........the wonderful Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition, Lou Beres? Naaaah. He only molested a 13-year old girl.

Uhhhhhh........ could it be GOP Chairman Donald Fleischman? Naaaah. All he did was fondle an underage boy.

Uhhhhh...........that staunch rightwinger and Republican supporter Jimmy Swaggart? Naaah. He just liked for hookers to piss on him.

Uhhhhh...........those wonderful religious icons and teachers, the Catholic priests? Naaah. They seem to prefer young boys too.

Dang. I give up. Who?

:lolhit:

You really are a piece of work, Freethinker. You have completely ignored anyone but Republicans and yet you claim to not be an ideologue. You are as transparant as cellophane and just as flimsy.