Obama's uncle rapes 8-year-old girl to death on wedding night.

[Jim Summerville]

SANAA: An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding
on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a
social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has
caused an outcry in the media and revived debate about child
brides.

Arwa Othman, head of Yemen House of Folklore and a leading
rights campaigner, said the girl, identified only as Rawan, was
married to a 40-year-old man last week in the town of Meedi in
Hajjah province in northwestern Yemen. "On the wedding night and
after intercourse, she suffered from bleeding and uterine
rupture which caused her death," Othman said. "They took her to
a clinic but the medics couldn't save her life."

Othman said authorities had not taken any action against the
girl's family or her husband. A local security official in the
provincial town of Haradh denied any such incident had taken
place. He did not want to be identified because he was not
authorized to speak to the press.

But two Meedi residents confirmed the incident and said that
local tribal chiefs had tried to cover up the incident when news
first broke, warning a local journalist against covering the
story.

Many poor families in Yemen marry off young daughters to save on
the costs of bringing up a child and earn extra money from the
dowry given to the girl. A UN report released in January
revealed the extent of the country's poverty, saying that 10.5
million of Yemen's 24 million people lacked sufficient food
supplies, and 13 million had no access to safe water and basic
sanitation. Human Rights Watch urged Yemen in December 2011 to
ban marriages of girls under 18, warning it deprived them of
education and harmed their health.

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