14-year-old child bride poisons husband and his 3 friends
A 35 year old man, who married a 14 year-old girl has met his water loo in the company of 3 his friends. They were reportedly poisoned by by the child bride who was forced into marriage.
According to the Punch,
Wasilu Umar admitted killing her husband, who was more than twice her age, by concealing rat poison in his food, the police in Kano said.
Three other people also died and 10 were taken to hospital apparently after eating the same food. Child marriage is common in Nigeria, especially in the mainly Muslim north. The girl’s father had forced her to marry the 35-year-old man, police said.
The marriage took place last week, police superintendent Musa Magaji Majia told the Associated Press news agency. The BBC’s Will Ross in Nigeria says Islamic police are trying to stop parents from forcing children into marriages against their will and the father could be charged.
The teenager is likely to be tried in a juvenile court.
Source: Punch.ng
Good job for the girl.
Juvenile court or not,am glad she is free from the so called marriage.They should let her be joor,the girls are rebelling and their parents are not paying attention. Its sad,