Teenage Girl Recounts How She Was Forced to Marry 78-Year-Old Man at 9
A 13-year-old Kenyan girl, Younis, has recounted how her parents forced her to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather when she was only nine years old in accordance to local Samburu tribe custom.
She ran away after enduring the agonizing marriage for 4 years and was rescued by Josephine Kulea, a young woman who runs the Samburu Girls Foundation, a boarding school for girls who have been disowned by their families, suffered traumatic ordeals backed by their culture including, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, and so on.
Younis told CNN:
“When I was about nine years old, my father married me off to an old man who was 78 years old. I went to his home and I stayed with him one week. He told me that I will be a wife but I was just innocent, I wanted to come to school. But that man wanted me to be a third wife. I told him, I will not be your wife, and he caned me. Then I heard that there is a woman who helps children. I came from Baragoi barefoot, I didn’t even have shoes that day. I came to Maralal … Kulea took me to [the] children’s office, she rescued me.”
Na wah oooo. Girl child are really suffering in africa.
Jesus Christ! Nothing we won’t hear or see hmmmm. If she kills him now, they will say she has committed crime Mtscheeeeeeewwww.
Good things she ran away and got help.What a barbaric culture
Na wa o
Hmmm, nawa oh!
What a nice initiative, God bless the people in charge of Samburu Girls Foundation…..some parent sef
What kind of stupid culture encourages child bride
Am speechless!!!!
Na wa o
Girl child wahala
Barbaric culture.
Wat nonsense marrying off a teenager to someone old enuf to b her grandfather.
Thank God for her. I really wish this child marriage will stop and people should stop having kids they can’t raise
Kai some parents are so wicked
Gr8 dat she ran for her life .wicked parents
People are insane, nine year old…..wife???? They just throw away women and see us as sex objects. Thank God she was rescued.
Some ‘parents’ don’t deserve children…
it is well oooo.hmmmm.stupid cultures n trads.