Watch: Elderly Afghan cleric arrested after marrying a six-year-old girl, claims she was a 'religious offering'

Watch: Elderly Afghan cleric arrested after marrying a six-year-old girl, claims she was a 'religious offering'

An elderly Afghan cleric has been arrested after he married a six-year-old girl, officials said Friday,July 30, in the latest case highlighting the scourge of child marriages in the Muslim country.
Mohammad Karim, said to around 60, who was being held in the central province of Ghor province, claimed her parents gave him the girl as a "religious offering". But officials cited the girl’s family on Friday as saying that she was abducted from the western province of Herat.
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