I know we're all supposed to embrace other cultures, but there's just some stuff that I struggle to understand, let alone embrace.

So goes this story of an 8 year old who had to be formally granted a divorce. Seems the parents married her off to a 30 year old man, who then proceeded, over the next 2 months, to routinely beat and have sex with her. She told her parents about her treatment, but they didn't do anything, saying she was legally the other man's wife.

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