A 12-year-old girl was married to a 63-year-old high priest in Ghana.

Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII, a spiritual leader in the Nungua area of the capital, Accra, wed the unidentified child in a huge ceremony on Saturday March 30, 2024.

However, the girl has been placed under police protection in Ghana, according to a report from the New York Times.

Although the girl has been placed under protective custody, no news about the arrest of the priest and the participants of the wedding ceremony.

Leaders of the Nungua indigenous community, to which the priest and the girl belong, said the public outrage that followed the event “comes from a point of ignorance.”

The girl’s role in the marriage is “purely tradition and custom,” says the local leader of the community, Nii Bortey Kofi Frankwa II.

The legal age to get married in Ghana is 18, and local laws do not allow child marriages under the guise of culture or custom.

However, according to the Girls Not Brides NGO, 19% of girls in Ghana are married before the age of 18 and 5% are married off before their 15th birthday.

Source: https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/lifestyle/12-year-old-girl-who-married-high-priest-63-taken-into-police-protection-reports/?utm_campaign=nypost&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2Uij0QKixEaFgLpsqM2-474guDJepLP5CxIAdq-17LYw7f0bfzj-Tujt4

A picture from the wedding

withSajweb:
A picture from the wedding

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Crazy

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After they'll tell us that some of our culture and traditions shouldn't be allowed to go extinct. Africa should outgrow some things abeg.

SyrusdeHansome:
After they'll tell us that some of our culture and traditions shouldn't be allowed to go extinct. Africa should outgrow some things abeg.

Go and check the legal age of consent around the world. You will be surprised.

De matter will die like dat because he de do spiritual work for top politicians

Capital Nonsense!🤨

Zxcvbnmghtr:


Go and check the legal age of consent around the world. You will be surprised.

yeah. Your parents should have married you off at the age of 12. Since it's a normal thing to you.

CallTheCops:
yeah. Your parents should have married you off at the age of 12. Since it's a normal thing to you.

They did.

Zxcvbnmghtr:


They did.

oh..
I feel so sorry for you.
You must've gone through hell.

CallTheCops:
oh..
I feel so sorry for you.
You must've gone through hell.

Was that your own experience?

This is crazy!

COMRADES this is a fake story

SyrusdeHansome:
After they'll tell us that some of our culture and traditions shouldn't be allowed to go extinct. Africa should outgrow some things abeg.

early marriage is far better than early fornication

wise up guyman

a girl's legal age for marriage is 18 ? ok , let me ask do the girls under 18 fornicate or not ? if they don't fornicate or romance then that's no problem but if yes , any one impose this law is a sinner and must be tortured in the after life. periodt .

Zxcvbnmghtr:


Was that your own experience?

Madd man

Fulaniguy01:
a girl's legal age for marriage is 18 ? ok , let me ask do the girls under 18 fornicate or not ? if they don't fornicate or romance then that's no problem but if yes , any one impose this law is a sinner and must be tortured in the after life. periodt .

so to u,12years gal is mature to hv sex cos u want her not to fornicate ,not considering damage it will cost that little child,how do u guys sleep