Nada al-Ahdal says she was only saved from the forced engagement after her uncle intervened.
'Go ahead and marry me off - I'll kill myself,' she warns in the video, dated July 8, and posted on YouTube. The schoolgirl. one of eight children, was taken in by her uncle Abdel Salam al-Ahdal, when she was aged three.
But when a Yemeni expatriate living in Saudi Arabia asked her parents if he could marry her, they readily agreed.
In an interview with National Yemen, Nada accuses her mother of arranging the marriage for profit.
'But I'm not an item for sale,' she says.
'I'm a human being and I would rather die than get married at this age.'Nada, has an 18-year-old sister who has already been engaged many times.
They would then postpone the marriage until the groom had accumulated enough money before ending the engagement and keeping the down payment.
Her uncle was horrified his young niece who lived with him, his son and his elderly mother was being married off.
He told NOW: 'When I heard about the groom, I panicked. Nada was not even 11 years old; she was exactly 10 years and 3 months. I could not allow her to be married off and have her future destroyed, especially since her aunt was forced to marry at 13 and burnt herself.
'I did all I could to prevent that marriage. I called the groom and told him Nada was no good for him. I told him she did not wear the veil and he asked if things were going to remain like that. I said ‘yes, and I agree because she chose it. I also told him that she liked singing and asked if he would remain engaged to her.'
Her parents were not happy the engagement was called off and demanded that Nada be returned home to them.
But following her return home, Nada disappear
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Make Boko Haram no catch this girl oh! Her face should have been hidden because she would be considered a rebel to islam
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And Mr Yerima is blowing 'grammar' over child marriage.. SMH for our SINators..
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ReplyDeletePoor little child. Marriage is not that easy as imagined.
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