Nine-year-old UK girl saved from marriage to 18-year-old Afghan cousin
AUTHORITIES intervened when they discovered that a nine-year-old girl was in danger of being taken to Afghanistan to marry her cousin.
Authorities intervened to stop a young girl from going to Afghanistan to marry her cousin
The child’s mother had warned the social services that her father was planning the trip.
Mr Justice MacDonald heard this revelation at a family court, which followed a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
The girl's father was planning the trip for her
The most common age for girls to get married in Afghanistan is 15 and 16
Another judge had made the parents the subject of a forced marriage protection order after child protection specialists began legal moves.
The orders prevented the couple from allowing the girl to get married.
Following her mother’s allegations, the girl had been taken into local authority care.
Mr Justice MacDonald had analysed the latest stage of proceedings launched by social services bosses.
The family is of Afghan heritage
The incident happened in the London Borough of Camden
The judge said the girl could not be identified, but said the local authority involved was the London Borough of Camden.
The family is of Afghan heritage.
The most common age for girls to get married in Afghanistan is 15 and 16.
The scourge of child marriage
In 2014, an Afghan man tried to marry off his daughter, aged six, so he could cover his debts.
He was stopped by a US lawyer.