60 year-old cleric arrested after marrying a six year-old girl in Afghanistan

‘A cleric in his 60s has been arrested in Afghanistan after he married a six-year-old girl. The religious leader says that the child was sent to him as a “gift.” However the rescued girl has a different opinion saying: “I am afraid of this man.”
The arrest took place in a village in the Ghor province in central Afghanistan. Mohammad Karim claims he married the child as a “religious offering,” adding that the parents of the girl were fully aware of their marriage.
“The girl was given to me as a gift and we were married so I could raise her,” Karim, who was arrested on Wednesday, told Radio Free Europe. “After the parents gave their daughter to me, they said, ‘you can take her wherever you want.’”’
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