Yemeni Muslim child bride dies of internal bleeding on wedding night

An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has caused an outcry in the media and revived debate about child brides.

Arwa Othman, head of Yemen House of Folklore and a leading rights campaigner, said the girl, identified only as Rawan, was married to a 40-year-old man late last week in the town of Meedi in Hajjah province in northwestern Yemen.

“On the wedding night and after intercourse, she suffered from bleeding and uterine rupture which caused her death,” Othman told Reuters. “They took her to a clinic but the medics couldn’t save her life.”

Othman said authorities had not taken any action against the girl’s family or her husband.

A local security official in the provincial town of Haradh denied any such incident had taken place. He did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

But two Meedi residents contacted by Reuters confirmed the incident and said that local tribal chiefs had tried to cover up the incident when news first broke, warning a local journalist against covering the story.

Many poor families in Yemen marry off young daughters to save on the costs of bringing up a child and earn extra money from the dowry given to the girl.

A U.N. report released in January revealed the extent of the country’s poverty, saying that 10.5 million of Yemen’s 24 million people lacked sufficient food supplies, and 13 million had no access to safe water and basic sanitation.

Human Rights Watch urged Yemen’s government in December 2011 to ban marriages of girls under the age of 18, warning it deprived child brides of education and harmed their health.

Quoting United Nations and government data, HRW said nearly 14 percent of Yemeni girls were married before the age of 15 and 52 percent before the age of 18. The group said many Yemeni child brides-to-be are kept from school when they reach puberty.


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An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age..
Hachhh.. Ya Muslims .. What will god have to do to make you change ???
You do not listen to him so look what he drops on you in Syria, Egypt ,Iraq etc...

 

So some rural Yemeni community is really backwards? Why is this news, as opposed to somewhere in India or Indonesia or Africa? Oh yeah, it's another opportunity for MBR to paint all Muslims as monsters, so that we won't feel sympathetic to the Palestineans when the Israelis steal the last bit of land remaining to them.

 

I didnt see anything about islam again

but i did find this story:

She was well off, and of good family, and had fled to Jerusalem with her relatives, where she became involved with the siege. Most of the property she had packed up and brought with her from Peraea had been plundered by the tyrants [Simon and John, leaders of the Jewish war-effort],

So, driven by fury and want, she committed a crime against nature. Seizing her child, an infant at the breast,...

....she killed her son, roasted the body, swallowed half of it, and stored the rest in a safe place


when the soldiers came


she said, "This is my own child, and my own handiwork. Eat, for I have eaten already. Do not show yourselves weaker than a woman, or more pitiful than a mother. But if you have pious scruples, and shrink away from human sacrifice, then what I have eaten can count as your share, and I will eat what is left as well."


Is that news to you?

Question. Was was the religious belief behind that?

 

Its not just "some yemeni community" this is going on in all parts of the muslim world.

Those horny pedophile worshippers just cant control their lust. So we have to shame them in order to save those little girls.

 

the shame is in using her for a story

But guilt may work, it's how israel exists.

 

MGB and his helper.

This is nothing but a hate thread.

 

Should we feel ashamed for hating pedophiles and societeis that advocate their behavior ?

 

Once again with the Defamation of Israel when the problem is Muslim <Pedophilia> running rampant wanting to emulate the chief Pedophile Mohammad who married Aisha at the age of 4 and consummated his marriage when she was nine.

Muslims should reform their cult... this filthy continuous <pedophilic> inclination should be stopped right now notwithstanding the <deflective mannerism> of one <skeptic>.

 

No it quite obvious now that <birds of feather flock together> and perhaps you seem reluctant to change.

 

Yes. Hate makes you irrational and urges you to evil.

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Hmmm...I wonder what you meant by that?

 

I don't hate Muslims but sure believe that half of the girls there being subject to rape, genital and urinary problems, having no education, lost childhoods and ruined lives is wrong.

 

That, by itself, is a reasonable observation.

 

Depends on which country you look at... Yemen has no law outside of Sana...

 

Gosh darn, then it's perfectly fine then!

 

History and tradition dictate that a girl cannot marry until the onset of the menses.. which generally comes late because of poor nutrition.

FMG is unheard of in KSA.. Its an African practice not an Islamic one.

 

Not exclusively African, Yemen is a big exception, and of course not part of the KSA. The WHO cites the prevalence of FGM in Yemen as 38.3% based on a 2003 estimate. http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/prevalence/en/

I agree with your point that FGM is not prevalent across all Muslim cultures.

 

If the leftists have their way here in the United States, we could see this lunacy or even worse.

 

Add me to that list too.

I hate pedophilia, the selling (trafficking) of children, imprisonment, rape and murder too.

How long is that list of those that don't ?
Besides you I mean...

 

No law other than shariah outside of Sana

 

Yemen has a lot of African influence because its not far across the Bab Al Mendab. but I didn't know FGM was as high as 38%.

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Which Sharia? It depends on the warlord and the tribe.

 

So your position is that if I am not overtaken with irrational animosity at the thought of a crime, I must like it?

 

Are you assuming that someone who wants the facts approves of FGM?

 

Shh... are you someone ?

 

Shushing other posters is patronizing and rude. It's a public board--anyone can respond to any post.

 

Yes, of course they can.... but "liking" someone on their silly, ignored question... then re-asking the same silly, ignored question... is a waste of everyone's bandwidth and should be shushed.

I'll take patronizing and rude... anyday... if it means thinking for myself.