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| Daughter sold for sheep: parents on bail |
| 2015-07-12 |
| [iol] Durban, SA - The parents of a 14-year-old girl accused of marrying her off to an older man for 15 sheep have been granted bail. The mother testified on Thursday that her daughter had left voluntarily to meet her husband-to-be and had ignored a call to come home and return to school. Her mother was arrested last Friday and charged with sexual exploitation of a child and human trafficking for sexual purposes. Her name is known to the Daily News, but cannot be revealed to protect the identity of her daughter, who is in a place of safety. In the dock in the Hammarsdale Magistrate's Court on Thursday, the mother joined her husband and the 26-year-old man accused of kidnapping and raping their daughter, and his brother. Ukuthwala: The Xhosa tribal practice of abducting young girls and forcing them into marriage, often with the consent of their parents. |
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