NIGERIA: CHILD BRIDE ACCUSED OF KILLING HUSBAND TO BE FREED, ANOTHER REMAINS ON DEATH ROW

June 9, 2015: A High Court judge in Gezawa, Kano State, ordered Wasila Tasi'u, a child forced to marry at just 13 who then poisoned her 35-year-old husband and three friends, to be released from juvenile detention. Another 13-year-old who killed her 35-year-old husband remains on death row despite a 2014 ruling from the West African Community Court of Justice that her sentence is illegal because she was a minor. Both girls had become second wives in the Muslim northern part of Nigeria where polygamy and child marriage is common. Neither had ever been to school and couldn't read or write. (Sources: Associated Press, 10/06/2015)