Yemen terminates 8 year old girl's marriage to abusive dirtbag

Not because it's wrong or anything like that.

No, it's just because she hasn't reached puberty. If she was 12 and had her period it would be okay, I guess. The child bride gets $250 dollars in compensation for her trouble. I'm wondering if the person who volunteered to pay the compensation was the Imam that married them in the first place? Moslem. What can I say? (Reuters then has the nerve to file the article under "Oddly Enough News" and call the quaint Islamic tradition of pedophilia "tribal", blaming the marriage on the poverty of the region. Please.)

Yemeni court ordered the marriage of an eight-year-old girl terminated on Tuesday because she had not reached puberty. The court also ordered the child's family to pay about $250 in compensation to the 30-year-old ex-husband.

The girl's lawyer and human rights activist Shatha Nasser said the minor had filed a suit in April asking for divorce and told the court that her husband had been physically abusing her and forcing her to have "sex with him after hitting her."

One of the people attending the trial volunteered to pay the compensation, the lawyer said, but did not explain the reason why the court ordered the compensation.

The ruling terminated the marriage instead of granting a divorce to prevent the husband from seeking to reinstate the marriage, according to the lawyer.

Many minor girls in Arab countries that observe tribal traditions are married to older husbands but not before puberty. Such marriages are also driven by poverty in countries like Yemen, one of the poorest countries outside Africa.

-end- (Unfortunately there's no end in sight for the young girls of the Moslem world)