An Unhappy Ending for the Youngest Divorcee
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For women in Muslim countries with sharia-based government, gains are of a one-step forward, eight-steps back nature. CNN checked in with Nujood Ali, the Yemeni girl who became famous at the age of 10 after escaping her husband and making her way to court, where the judge who discovered her took her home to play with his children. Glamour honored her as woman of the year and brought her to New York for the awards ceremony.
But poor Nujood has not gotten her happy ending, as the CNN.com article demonstrates. Perhaps most offensive of all? Nujood was granted the divorce she sought, but:
her husband was compensated, not prosecuted. Nujood was ordered to pay him more than $200—a huge amount in a country where the United Nations Development Programme says 15.7 percent of the population lives on less than $1 a day.
That’s right. The man who beat and raped her, and who went to jail because Yemen law sets the age for marriage at 15, got what amounts to spousal support from a little girl.
Image is a screenshot from a video about Nujood's story.
Rachael Larimore Slate copy chief and mother of three. Addicted to coffee, Facebook, and the Sprout channel.
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Without punishment of the father and protection for the girl, other men will continue to "marry" children. And girls will not complain if they see that they can't go home or move forward in other directions. Perhaps the successful ruling will make other families think twice, if not for love, than to avoid ending up with a pre-teen non-virgin back at home.
It's tragic but many of the worst abuses occur in the home and within the family.