How can a father be so cruel to marry his young teenage daughter to an old man? Did he really think his daughter would lead a happy life with this arrangement? This seems to happen a lot -- forcing a young girl into marriage with a man old enough to be her father or grandfather, and in this case old enough to be her great grandfather.
Saudi teenager calls police after father arranges marriage with handsome young man... but swaps him for a friend in his NINETIES at the wedding
PUBLISHED: 07:02 EST, 12 November 2014 | UPDATED: 07:45 EST, 12 November 2014
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A 17-year-old Saudi girl (not pictured) agreed to marry a young man only to find out her father had swapped her would-be husband for a man in his 90s
A Saudi girl was forced to call the police on her father after he duped her into marrying a man who was nearly 100 years old.
The 17-year-old had initially accepted her father's wish for her to marry a handsome man in his 20s after meeting the groom-to-be at her house.
But when the wedding contract was drawn up, she was horrified to discover that the paperwork showed her new husband was a different man in his 90s who lived in another city.
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Saudi teenager calls police after father arranges marriage with man in his 90s Daily Mail Online
Saudi teenager calls police after father arranges marriage with handsome young man... but swaps him for a friend in his NINETIES at the wedding
- Girl, 17, had agreed to marry man in his 20s after meeting him at her home
- Later discovered husband on wedding contract was nearly 100 years old
- She has won court case to have her marriage declared 'null and void'
PUBLISHED: 07:02 EST, 12 November 2014 | UPDATED: 07:45 EST, 12 November 2014
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A 17-year-old Saudi girl (not pictured) agreed to marry a young man only to find out her father had swapped her would-be husband for a man in his 90s
A Saudi girl was forced to call the police on her father after he duped her into marrying a man who was nearly 100 years old.
The 17-year-old had initially accepted her father's wish for her to marry a handsome man in his 20s after meeting the groom-to-be at her house.
But when the wedding contract was drawn up, she was horrified to discover that the paperwork showed her new husband was a different man in his 90s who lived in another city.
Read more:
Saudi teenager calls police after father arranges marriage with man in his 90s Daily Mail Online
