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Achi news desk-
No matter how much awareness is raised about child marriage, there is no break in the bad practice. A 63-year-old priest who married a 12-year-old girl has sparked outrage. A video of an influential priest marrying a girl has gone viral on social media. This background has been widely criticized. Also, the women who attended this child wedding gave advice to the little girl in the video. Women advise women to wear nice clothes and use perfume to attract husbands. This has attracted even more criticism.
This inhumane child marriage took place in Ghana, South Africa. Many community leaders were also involved in the wedding and government officials are yet to comment on this controversial wedding
The minimum legal age for marriage in Ghana is 18. Child marriage rates are falling in Ghana, but the practice continues, according to the BBC. About 19% of Ghanaian girls are married before the age of 18. A report by NGO Girls Not Brides says that 5% of girls are married before their 15th birthday.
Other news
The Rajasthan High Court has been surprised by saying that it is not a crime for a married person to have sex with someone else. The Rajasthan High Court has recently ruled in a case that it is not a crime for an adult to voluntarily have sex outside of marriage under the law. Adultery is an offense under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). But in 2018, the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional, Justice Birendra Kumar mentioned in his judgment.
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