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Sentence Handed Down in Afghan Child Bride Case
Posted by Anne Marie Houppert on May 9, 2012 
The in-laws of Sahar Gul, a 15-year-old Afghan child bride, have been sentenced in an Afghan court to 10 years. Gul was imprisoned by her in-laws in a basement and then tortured, including being burned and having her fingernails pulled out, in an effort to force her to become a prostitute.
