This is really a very shocking news for
all Muslims that a Saudi father, whose name has not been released, sold
his 12-year-old daughter to his 80-year old cousin for the equivalent of
$22,600. The elderly man, who lives in the city of Buraidah, stands
accused of raping the girl after the wedding. He has previously married
three other young girls.
“She was raped and they took her to the
hospital after the wedding night,” Wajiha Al-Huwaidar, a Saudi
journalist who has been banned from reporting by the government told The
Media Line. “Usually when the girl is very young, the authorities tell
the husband not to touch her until after puberty. When he was
interviewed, the guy just said she was old enough and he didn’t know she
would get hurt.” The girl, already in the custody of the elderly man,
was reported to have shouted “I don’t want him, save me!” when contacted
by phone by a journalist from the Al Riyadh, a local newspaper in the
Saudi capita
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