Saudi girl drinks bleach to escape marriage

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DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)

A 16-year-old Saudi girl drank a bottle of bleach in an attempt to commit suicide to escape a forced marriage to a 75-year-old man, press reports revealed Sunday.

The girl identified only as, Shaikha, said her father was forcing her to marry the old man so that he could marry his 13-year-old daughter in an exchange deal, Bahrain's Tribune reported.

Shaikha described how her father took her to meet the old man and his 13-year-old in a marriage office where they all had pre-marital tests done, the Tribune quoted the Saudi Gazette as reporting.

Shaikha told the paper how she begged and pleaded not to be forced into marriage but both of the men ignored her pleas.

The 16-year-old appealed to the National Society of Human Rights to intervene and stop the marriage, the Tribune said, adding Shaikha, whose parents are separated, asked to live with her mother.

Shaikha

[Deathcricket]

It's her own fault for waiting until 16 to get married really. She should step aside and let her 13/yr old sister have a happy life now that she is "past her prime".

[JP]

And we don't have it good here

[Cirrus2000]

And we don't have it good here

Quite - it's a good thing that nothing like this happens closer to home.

deathcricket, I believe the 13 year old was actually the daughter of her fiance - arranged to marry her own father in a reciprocal deal. Thus she was about to become both her step-daughter and her step-mother.

[JP]

I'm closer to you than Utah

[Deathcricket]

Ohhh you are totally correct. i thought he had to marry his first daughter off before the 2nd daughter could get married...

I swear my jokes always backfire!!! HEHE

So a 75yr old man somehow conceived a child when he was 62 then. Now of course, he wants a younger wife. His old one probably hit 30 I bet... Sheesh.