BBC News, 7
January 2013
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| The case has drawn a sharp reaction from Saudis on social networks |
Some Saudis
have been asking whether the case amounts to trafficking or child abuse.
Local media
reports say the man paid a dowry of $17,000 (£10,500) in order to get married
to the girl.
A series of
similar cases in recent years has drawn attention to the issue of child
marriage in the kingdom.
The girl in
the latest case was so frightened that on the wedding night she locked her
husband outside the bedroom and eventually escaped back to her parents, local
media reports say.
The husband
is reported to be considering legal action to get either her or his dowry back.
The case
reflects how online social networks have become a vital forum for public
discussion in what has long been an opaque, even closed society, with Saudis
now taking to Twitter faster than anywhere else in the world, the BBC's Middle
East analyst Sebastian Usher reports.
Thousands
of girls under 14 are reported to have been married off to richer, much older
men, he adds.
There
appears to be widespread support in Saudi society for a minimum age for
marriage, which the authorities say they are working towards.
However,
some of the most conservative religious scholars are still resisting the idea,
while insisting that girls must have reached puberty before marriage.
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