8-year-old Yemeni girl wants to divorce her 30-year-old husband

[Kknight]

:tsk This is so sad and sick...

Nojoud Mohammed Nasser is probably the most famous Yemenite girl in the world.

Last week, 8-year-old Nasser went alone to the court of justice in Sanaa, Yemen's capital city, to find a judge who would agree to accept her claim against her father for compelling her to marry a 30-year-old man. She also insisted that the judge force her husband to divorce her.

Yemenite law states that 15 is the minimum legal age for marriage, but does permit girls younger than that to marry on condition that the couple "does not engage in intimate relations."

Nasser told journalists that every time she wanted to play outside, her husband demanded that she return home to sleep with him.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975575.html

[HisAlways]

Religion of peace in the news again. Forcing an 8 year-old to marry. :tsk Where in the world are the human rights organizations? Child-abuse organizations? :thinking Hmmm....maybe in TX?

[SumSam]

Can you blame them - when their prophet himself set the trend? :doh :(

[HisAlways]

Can you blame them - when their prophet himself set the trend? :doh :(
Very true.....:rolleyes

[livin4Him]

:tsk This is beyond disgusting.

[ZAGS]

:puke :puke :puke

[jadeeyes]

And what the girl said begs the question: How could a 30 year old man possibly have any sexual interest in an 8 year old child? She just wants to go out and play. Do you remember being 8? I do. I had several nearly bald baby dolls because I was constantly washing, curling and styling their hair. I played with Barbies and paper dolls. I played jump rope, hopscotch, hide and seek and tag. I was either holed up in my room with my best friend playing with dolls, sitting in a corner readin or out running, jumping and generally roughhousing. I didn't know anything at all about sex or how a baby could get into my Mom's tummy, but if I had known, it would have completely groosed me out.:puke

[wife]

And what the girl said begs the question: How could a 30 year old man possibly have any sexual interest in an 8 year old child? She just wants to go out and play. Do you remember being 8? I do. I had several nearly bald baby dolls because I was constantly washing, curling and styling their hair. I played with Barbies and paper dolls. I played jump rope, hopscotch, hide and seek and tag. I was either holed up in my room with my best friend playing with dolls, sitting in a corner readin or out running, jumping and generally roughhousing. I didn't know anything at all about sex or how a baby could get into my Mom's tummy, but if I had known, it would have completely groosed me out.:puke

But according to the law, he cannot have sex with her..... I have a 7 year old girl and I cannot imagine her going through this:tsk

[felixthecat]

Eight-Year-Old Girl Divorces Husband From Arranged Marriage

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Fox News

An eight-year-old Yemeni girl was granted a divorce from an arranged marriage she was forced into in just the second grade.

Nojud Mohammed Ali said she was forced to marry under an agreement reached between her unemployed father and 28-year-old former husband, Faez Ali Thameur, earlier this year, AFP reported.

...

Thameur told a judge that he married Nojud with her consent and her parents', and

that the marriage "was consummated, but I did not beat her."

He did not object to the divorce petition.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351388,00.html

I'm so relieved he "didn't beat her".

I cannot imagine consumating a marriage with an 8 year old girl and he's what ... 28! GEESH! He's a pedophile!

[Mickey]

This is child abuse!!!!!