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6. That's NOT marriage. That's sexual slavery and forcible rape

Thu May 1, 2014, 05:34 PM

May 2014

For Chrissakes, get an editor, al-Jezeera! One with a modicum of intelligence and/or a dictionary.

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Nigeria's kidnapped girls sold into marriage for $12 [View all] Blue_Tires May 2014 OP

So why don't we buy them, send them back to their mothers? Scuba May 2014 #1

+1 get the red out May 2014 #2

Unfortunately, that would probably only encourage more kidnappings theHandpuppet May 2014 #3

The Nigerian gov't is just too centralized, bloated, Blue_Tires May 2014 #4

Oh, God. That is horrifying. They are children. Squinch May 2014 #5

Exactly. My heart weeps for them and their families. Number23 May 2014 #10

That's NOT marriage. That's sexual slavery and forcible rape Demeter May 2014 #6

I would guess damn near impossible Blue_Tires May 2014 #9

This story makes me sick to my stomach... Jasana May 2014 #8

No words can describe the horror of the situation. iandhr May 2014 #11