Sunday, March 6, 2016

An 8-year-old girl from Yemen dies of internal bleeding, the night she married the 40-year-old man. Unacceptable!


It is for real that marrying a woman below 18 years old is unacceptable. Marrying a woman below their legal age will prevent her from experiencing the freedom of being a teenager.

Here's a heartbreaking story of an 8-year-old girl who died of internal bleeding the night she married the 40-year-old man.

An 8-year-old girl from Yemen dies of internal bleeding, the night she married the 40-year-old man. Unacceptable!

The 8-year-old Yemeni girl who was identified as Rawan died of internal hemorrhaging to vaginal  tearing the night she was married to the 40-year-old man from the northwestern Yemen.

An 8-year-old girl from Yemen dies of internal bleeding, the night she married the 40-year-old man. Unacceptable!

A lot of officers denied that such incident happened, but then, 2 Meedi residents who were contacted by Reuters confirmed that the said tribal chiefs tried to cover up the incident and warned the local journalists against covering the story.

Poor families in Yemen decided to marry off their young daughters to save the cost of raising a child plus they get extra money that were being given to the girls.


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