A girl who is from
Baringo county, Tirioko ward in Tiaty constituency, Kenya, was married off when
she was eight years old, and was later married to two other men before the age
of 10.
The ten-old Kenyan girl has
been rescued by a concerned citizen after she was married by three different
men.
In her first marriage, the
girl was maltreated at her home because she could not conceive after marriage,
and this caused her to flee.
She was later married off
to another man who also maltreated her. According to reports, the girl suffers
from a disease that made her stomach to swell, but the men who married the
underage girl thought she was pregnant.
It was also revealed that
she was made to undergo Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, when she was much
younger.
Judy Seguton, the good
Samaritan who saved the girl, said she was married off to her first husband
after the circumcision and she lived with him for three months before she fled
due to the constant beatings she got because she could not conceive.
Her parents married her off
to the second man and she lived with him for three weeks before escaping again.
Her parents then beat her
up for escaping from her second husband’s house, then married her off to a
third husband.
All the men who she was
married off to were very old.
The girl is now receiving
treatment after being rescued by Judy. The swelling in her stomach is also
going down.
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