Yemen Child Bride, 8, Dies After Suffering Internal Bleeding From Sexual Injuries On Wedding Night

latin news ^ | Maria G. Valdez

[Morgana]

An 8-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. The girl, identified only as Rawan, is believed to have suffered tearing of her genitals and a uterine rupture. Activists are now calling for the groom, who is believed to be around 40 years old, and her family to be arrested so they can face justice in the courts.

"On the wedding night and after intercourse, she suffered from bleeding and uterine rupture which caused her death," Arwa Othman, head of Yemen House of Folklore and a leading rights campaigner told Reuters. "They took her to a clinic but the medics couldn't save her life." A local security official in the provincial town of Haradh, Yemen, denied any such incident had taken place. He did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

However, two residents of Meedi, a Hajjah province in northwestern Yemen, 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.

[Vanders9]

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[Blue Highway]

And the even more repulsive thing is he could continue to have sex with his dead 8 year old wife for up to 2 hours after her death according to Muslim law.