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14-year-old Nigerian child bride is facing charges of culpable homicide after killing her 35-year-old husband and three of his friends:
Police... quote 14-year-old Wasila Umaru as saying she used rat poison in the food because she was forced to marry a man she did not love. The couple was married last week. The 35-year-old groom had invited a dozen friends to celebrate at his village 100 kilometres from the north Nigerian city of Kano over the weekend.
Child marriage is common in Nigeria and especially in the mainly Muslim north.
Before anyone points to slippery slopes of gay weddings leading to weddings between adults and children, it is worth nothing that
Nigerian does not recognize any LGBT rights or protections.
