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About 40 days ago Gharibgol was forced to marry the mullah of Obeh, the village where she lives with her family. She was sold to him by her father in exchange for a goat, a bag of rice, tea, sugar, and a few litres of cooking oil.
After their marriage, her husband took her to Firozkoh, in Ghor province, to stay at a distant relative’s house. This host first thought that Gharibgol was the mullah’s daughter. But then the host realized that he was undressing her at night. [Editor’s Note: According to tests later carried out by Ghor hospital, there was no sexual intercourse.] So he asked the mullah: she’s not your daughter? The mullah replied: no, she’s my wife; her father gave her to me. The host told a friend, who called the local women rights bureau for Ghor province. The bureau called the police, and called me, as well.
Gharibgol is now living with her mother in a safe house in Firozkoh. Negineh Khalili, the head of the women’s rights bureau for Ghor province, told me she will do her best to make sure that her father loses his parental rights and that Gharibgol is granted a divorce. She and the mullah were only married religiously, which makes things more difficult – a judge cannot divorce them; another imam must do that. And divorce remains very taboo in Afghanistan…
Wow. The good news is there's a Women's Rights Bureau in Afghanistan... and they're actually empowered to make things happen. Also the good news is that this little girl doesn't appear to have been raped.
There's a video of the girl being taken away as village women beat her father... you think 6 is really young, but it's not until you see her on video that you realize just how young that is.
http://observers.france24.com/en/20160804-afghanistan-underage-girl-sold-marriage