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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