If it takes three stories to make a trend, here's your third with an arguably happy ending.
Nojoud, an 8-year-old Yemeni girl forced to marry a man in his 20s, took her destiny into her own hands. She ran away from her husband, and took a taxi to a judge's office.
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In Afghanistan, a startling trend is emerging. Recently a family of a 13-year-old girl received 40,000 Afghani ($800) for allowing the girl to marry her father's cousin, and nine-year-old brides are traded for wheat and two cows. As a result of the trend of young girls being sold into marriage, midwives are helping girls as young as 10 years old deliver babies, only to see many mothers perish in childbirth.
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Authorities trying to talk to some of the kids taken from this weekend's big polygamy raid aren't getting much information. After state troopers raided a 1,700-acre West Texas ranch last Friday looking for evidence of the teen, who placed a call authorities a week ago, some 220 women and children have been removed from the premises. The tipoff call came from a girl who allegedly had a baby at 15 and was married to a 50-year-old (under Texas law, girls younger than 16 cannot marry, even with parental approval).
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