Saudi court refuses to void pedophile marriage

Arab News:

A court in Onaizah in the northeastern Qassim province has rejected a divorce petition filed by the mother of a an eight-year-old girl whose father married her to a 58-year-old man, saying the case should wait until the girl reaches puberty.

In a verdict issued on Saturday, presiding judge Sheikh Habib Al-Habib dismissed the case because the woman does not have the right to file such a plea on behalf of her daughter and ordered that the petition should be filed by the girl herself when she reaches puberty, Al-Riyadh newspaper reported yesterday quoting Abdullah Al-Jutaili, the lawyer representing the girl’s divorced mother.

The woman filed the case with the Onaizah court in August just after the marriage contract was signed by the father and the groom.

The father had agreed to marry his daughter to the 58-year-old for an advance dowry of SR30,000, as he was apparently facing financial problems, according to relatives who did not wish to be named.

The father, who was in court, remained adamant in favor of the marriage.

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This is disgusting evidence of a sick culture that views 8 year old girls as an item of chattel to be bartered by a greedy father. If the child's mother does not have standing to bring the case, the kingdom should intervene with a request for an annulment. This is an embarrassment to the Saudi culture. I am surprised the King has not intervened on behalf of justice.

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  1. Unknown9:06 PM

    What could I do to help -- can I pay the dowry?

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