Saudi court rejects divorce plea from EIGHT-year-old girl married to 58-year-old man

[babylonsister]

Saudi court rejects divorce plea from EIGHT-year-old girl married to 58-year-old man

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 8:24 PM on 21st December 2008


A Saudi court has rejected a plea to divorce an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man who is 58, saying the case should wait until the girl reaches puberty.

The divorce plea was filed in August by the girl's divorced mother with a court at Unayzah, 135 miles north of Riyadh just after the marriage contract was signed by the father and the groom.

Lawyer Abdullar Jtili said:"The judge has dismissed the plea, filed by the mother, because she does not have the right to file such a case, and ordered that the plea should be filed by the girl herself when she reaches puberty."

Mass wedding in Riyadh

Grooms take part in a mass wedding ceremony in Riyadh in June. Governor of Riyadh Prince Salman and a local group organized a mass wedding for about 1600 couples to help people unable to afford expensive ceremonies

"She doesn't know yet that she has been married," Jtili said then of the girl who was about to begin her fourth year at primary school.

Relatives who did not wish to be named said that the marriage had not yet been consummated, and that the girl continued to live with her mother.

They said that the father had set a verbal condition by which the marriage is not consummated for another 10 years, when the girl turns 18.

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[Dr. Strange]

1. The judge makes a good point.

This kind of decision really should wait until the girl is mature enough to deal with it.

Much like marriage.

[leftchick]

2. our lovely allies the Saudis make saddam look , well almost sane

but saddam was a bad, bad man. :puke:



I can not believe most americans can not see this hypocrisy,

[Sultana]

4. That pic makes me wonder...

what goes on behind closed doors in the al Sauds palaces.

:o

[47of74]

13. Thanks for that nice mental image.

[Sultana]

3. .

Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) married 6 yr old Aisha, no biggie.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:


Gross :puke:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. REPULSIVE, FEMALE IS ONLY MEAT TO MIDDLE-EASTERN MEN

[Aviation Pro]

6. If you think that's disgusting and seamy.....

....check out Saudi men's real preference. I won't elaborate because I don't want to get banned.

[Sultana]

10. I think I know what you mean...

:-(

[notesdev]

9. You can't make this stuff up...

check out the automatically generated ad at the bottom of the thread:

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[kenny blankenship]

7. "We're not so different, you and I"

We worship the same God, cherish the same family values...

[47of74]

8. With allies like these...

...who the fuck needs enemies?

[Joe the Liberal]

11. Lol.......

good point. :rofl:

[anigbrowl]

12. Isn't this an arranged marriage rather than a completed one?

Not that I approve of arranged marriage, but the suggestions of pedophilia are misplaced.

[Joe the Liberal]

14. What do you expect?...........

their government is run by highly conservative religious nut jobs.

[Spectral Music]

15. So the marriage will be consumated when the girl is 18 and the man 68.

She'll be a virgin and he'll need Viagra.

[BeFree]

16. Slavery

Plain and simple.

Iraq was headed away from all this and it made SA very anxious.

[Marrah_G]

17. The continues slavery of women

Bought sold, beaten, raped and slaughtered like farm animals. Goats are a bit more valuable.

That these people are our allies makes my stomach turn.

That little girl will never have a chance.