Outrage is growing around the world after a 41-year-old Muslim man took the 11-year-old daughter of an impoverished employee as his third wife.
Che Abdul Karim, the self-proclaimed imam of Kampung Lalang village in Kuala Betis, Malaysia, reportedly travelled to the border town of Sungai Golok in southern Thailand to wed the child last month.
The girl’s cash-strapped Thai parents are rubber tappers who work for Mr Karim, who has children aged five to 18 by his first two wives, according to The Borneo Post.
News of the illegal union spread after the man’s second wife, 34, posted a photograph of the pair on social media with the caption: “Selamat pengantin baru suamiku. Suami 41, maduku 11 (Congratulations on your wedding, my husband, 41, his other wife, 11).”
Malaysian online news site The Star reported that the woman deleted the post after it went viral but said in another post that she had referred the matter to the courts and the Malaysian Department of Welfare.
The underage bride has never been to school and is a friend of one of Mr Karim’s children.
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