A 10-year-old Kenyan girl has been rescued by a concerned citizen after she was married by three different men.
The girl who is from Baringo county, Tirioko ward in Tiaty constituency, Kenya, was married off when she was eight years old, and was later married to two other men before the age of 10.
In her first marriage, the girl was maltreated at her home because she could not conceive after marriage, and this caused her to flee.
She was later married off to another man who also maltreated her. According to reports, the girl suffers from a disease that made her stomach to swell, but the men who married the underage girl thought she was pregnant.
It was also revealed that she was made to undergo Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, when she was much younger.
Her parents married her off to the second man and she lived with him for three weeks before escaping again.
Her parents then beat her up for escaping from her second husband’s house, then married her off to a third husband.
All the men who she was married off to were very old.
