Saudi woman demands annulment of daughter marriage
Aug 13, 2008 Saudi News
Story
A Saudi woman went to court demanding that her 8 year old daughters marriage to a man in his fifties married to two be annulled.
The father of the girl who is separated from her mother owed money to the groom, in exchange for the money he owned the father agreed to marry his 8 year old daughter to the man who was in his fifties and already had two wives. As soon as the mother knew of this marriage she went to court demanding that the marriage be annulled due to the age of the girl and that the marriage was based on cancellation of loans. She also contacted the human rights authorities and other governmental authorities to stop this marriage.
Commentary
One word here SICK! Now this is a big problem in Saudi Arabia forgetting all about the money part and so on Saudi Arabia does not have a an age limit for marriage. This is based religious reasons since Islam doesn’t provide an age limit. however those were the old days when life was different. Even if Islam doesn’t provide a specific age limit it does provide a lot of laws to protect children and life and using those laws and the current times setting an age limit should be no problem, not only that it should be required! Stop selling girls and stop child molestation because that’s what I see here.
PS: This is an exception and not the norm but such an exception shouldn’t be possible if there was a law with a marrage age.
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August 13th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Wow. 8 is a little child. I’m not sure why anyone would want to marry a child that young. In America, we have very strict laws. But regardless of laws, I would think it would just not make sense to marry someone who was too young to even look womanly or bare children….
Did the mother succeed in the annullment?
~Kelly
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August 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Actually Kelly some girls are able to bare kids starting at the age of 8. But putting that aside this is wrong not to mention the age difference.
This is a new case and I don’t have any updates. But if she can prove it was all about the money she should win, otherwise she got an uphill battle in front of her.