Zimbabwe was arrested a 26-year-old man, who had a minor wife during childbirth, he was charged with the rape of the child. About this reports BBC channel.
Anna Merchai died at the age of 15 a few days after the birthday. The teenager was forced to throw a school to marry. Girl at the nine-year-old predicted by a man her parents.
According to the police, the relatives of the girl lied about her age to marry her at the local popular Apostolic Church, which often concludes child marriages. Girl’s parents are charged with juvenile.
The case attracted the attention of local human rights defenders. They report that such marriages are their families due to financial benefits, even despite government bans.
Earlier in Afghanistan commander of the Taliban jihadists (a terrorist organization forbidden in Russia) demanded the lists of unmarried girls and women from elders in order to force them to marry their soldiers. Previously, the norm concerned unmarried daughters aged 15 to 45 years, at the moment 12-year-old children fall into slavery.