The Telegraph reports that a Saudi court won't allow an 8-year-old girl to divorce her 58-year-old husband. The court in its wisdom ruled that the girl must reach puberty before she can pursue her case.
The divorce plea was filed in August by the girl's divorced mother with a court at Unayzah, 220 kilometres (135 miles) north of Riyadh just after the marriage contract was signed by the father and the groom.
"She doesn't know yet that she has been married," the lawyer said then of the girl who was about to begin her fourth year at primary school.
Saudi court rejects plea to annul 8-year-old girl's marriage to 58-year-old man (via Anorak)
