Court to consider divorce for girl, 8

Court to consider divorce for girl, 8

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A SAUDI court will next month hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man in his fifties, the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported today.

It said the girl's mother had filed the divorce case with the court at Unayzah 220km north of Riyadh, and cited lawyer Abdullah Jtili as saying the father had arranged the marriage without telling the girl.

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At face value, without knowing more than the article reads - can anyone else see a problem here?

Is it me, or is half the world just crazy?

An eight year old girl married? You have to be joking!

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