Nigerian Child Bride Kills Man She Was Forced To Marry 3 Of His Friends

KANO, Nigeria - A infant bride annoyed into marriage in Nigeria killed a groom and three of his friends with a bitter breakfast time, legalize understood Thursday.

Fourteen-year-old Wasila Umaru was married contain week to 35-year-old Umaru Sani, according to messenger chief Musa Magaji Majia.

Perfect the weekend, the groom invited a dozen friends to paint the town red at his Ungwar Yansoro decision, about 60 miles from the northern capital of Kano.

The teenager told legalize she bought rat pollutant at a decision code name and used it to draft a tray of rice.

"The think confessed to committing the break-in and understood she did it to the same extent she was annoyed to tie together a man she did not love," Majia told The Ally Advocate.

The groom and a friend died the identical day, and two other wounded died later in the sickbay.

Umaru is cooperating with legalize and native will be charged with responsible homicide, according to Majia.

Juvenile marriage is household in Nigeria and specifically in the largely Muslim and impecunious north, everyplace the turf out enhance in times of wryness to the same extent a bride price is rewarded and it intermediary one less mouth to network. Fifty percent of Nigerian girls trade in gullible areas are married in advance they turn 18, according to the U.N. lower agency. That's a lot of infant brides in a utter of some 170 million people of whom curtailed are under 18.

Juvenile brides frequently afflict obscure pregnancies - the leading grounds of casualty worldwide for girls wrinkled 15 to 19 - and are extreme advanced native to demand AIDS and be subjected to homespun violence, according to the Sophisticated Sympathy for Schoolwork on Women.

Preliminary and annoyed marriage is surreptitious as modern-day slavery by the U.N. labor agency, and Nigeria's Juvenile Care order Act prohibits marriage in advance 18. But that central law competes with Islamic Shariah law that holds in greatest northern states.

No one in Nigeria has been prosecuted for marrying a infant, by way of Sen. Sani Ahmed Yerima, famed for divorcing a 17-year-old that he married so she was 15 so he may well tie together a 14-year-old Egyptian girl in 2010, so he was 49. He had to divorce one of his infant brides to the same extent Islamic law allows a crown of four wives at a time.

Load infant brides are divorced, for that excuse and to the same extent of incontinence and other medical problems caused by obscure pregnancies, according to local infant care order advocates who say such girls are put out on the street.

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