Child-bride, 12, Dies in Yemen After Struggling
to Give Birth For THREE Days
O Europe Do You Not See What is Coming
to Your Daughters and Small Children? Do You Not See What
is Coming to Your Wives, and the Slaughter That is Coming to Your Husbands, The
Elderly, and Your Young Men? The Lord calls out for your repentence,
it is a time of fasting, of deep repentence and soul seaching for all who dwell
in
You have grown fat and your ears are filled with dross.
Repent for I come and My eye searches too and fro in
your nations to find any that are righteous and upright before me, and I find
none. Your Churches are empty and are
falling into ruin, and even those churches that are filled they speak and teach
not the truth, and have led their flocks astray even from Me. They teach the doctrine and traditions of
men, they teach the wisdom of this world, they teach on earthly riches, and
everything that would feed the carnality of their hearers. Yea saith the Lord
Purify Yourselves, Ye Adulterers and Adultresses, Ye Liars, Ye Boastful for death
cometh neigh even as the sickle upon the ripe grain where it is cut off and
taken away so shall my house be purged.
Be warned death waiteth and even stalketh all ye
children of corruption and in that day ye shall be bundled and cast into ovens
and burned.
By Daily
Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:06 PM on 13th September 2009
A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour
to give birth, a local human rights organisation said.
Fawziya Abdullah
Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillborn in
the al-Zahra district
Child marriages are
widespread in
More than a quarter of the country's females marry before age 15,
according to a recent report by the Social Affairs Ministry.
The
practice of marrying pre-pubescent girls is also common in
Youssef was only 11
when her father married her to a 24-year-old man who works as a farmer in
Al-Quraishi, whose
group promotes child rights in
Nojud
Ali became the first Yemeni child bride to break tribal tradition and demand a
divorce
'This is one of many
cases that exist in
'The reason behind it
is the lack of education and awareness, forcing many girls into marriage in
this very early age.'
Impoverished parents
in
There is also a
long-standing tribal custom in which infant daughters and sons are promised to
cousins in hopes it will protect them from illicit relationships, he said.
Al-Quraishi said
there are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are
performed every year.
The issue of child
brides vaulted into the headlines here two years ago when an eight-year-old
Yemeni girl went by herself to a courtroom and demanded a judge dissolve her
marriage to a man in his 30s.
She eventually won a
divorce, and legislators began looking at ways to curb the practice.
In February,
parliament passed a law setting the minimum marriage age at 17. But some
lawmakers are trying to kill the measure, calling it un-Islamic.
Before it could be
ratified by
Such marriages also
occur in neighboring oil-rich