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The girl's father forced her to marry a 51-year-old man and then a 35-year-old man.
A children's rights campaigner and government officials in Kenya rescued a 12-year-old girl whose father had married her off to two men within a month.
The girl's father in Narok County west of the capital Nairobi forced her to marry a 51-year-old man and then a 35-year-old man.
"The father gave her off to the elderly man to be married. She had no option than to get married to the younger man," Joshua Kaputah from the Narok County Peace Association told the BBC.
Kaputah told the news outlet that the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic have increased cases of child marriages.
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Kenyan 12-year-old girl married to 2 men within a month
The girl's father forced her to marry a 51-year-old man and then a 35-year-old man.
A children's rights campaigner and government officials in Kenya rescued a 12-year-old girl whose father had married her off to two men within a month.
The girl's father in Narok County west of the capital Nairobi forced her to marry a 51-year-old man and then a 35-year-old man.
"The father gave her off to the elderly man to be married. She had no option than to get married to the younger man," Joshua Kaputah from the Narok County Peace Association told the BBC.
Kaputah told the news outlet that the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic have increased cases of child marriages.
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Kenyan 12-year-old girl married to 2 men within a month