8 Year Old Files for Divorce

Child-protection groups say children are often given away in return for hefty dowries, or as a result of old customs...Yes...old customs. Wonder where those old customs came from. Maybe it has something to do with this ... Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. BBC

A court in Saudi Arabia is reported to be preparing to hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl who has been married off to a man in his 50s.

The Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the girl had been married off to the man by her father without her knowledge.

The child's mother is thought to be pushing for the marriage to be annulled - though the father opposes the move.