Child-bride bleeds to death from a ruptured uterus on the night of her wedding

Child-bride bleeds to death on the night of her wedding:

'via Blog this'A 13-year-old Yemeni girl, bled to death on her wedding night after her uterus ruptured during sexual intercourse with her 30-year-old husband, authorities said.

The local news media reported this week that the girl's family asked the groom to be sentenced to death according to tribal customs, invoking the local sheik to support their demands for justice.

"I ask for God's laws over those of men, I demand revenge, I demand the death of the murderer of my daughter," the distraught mother said this week in presenting her testimony with the local police.

Local human rights group called Saving Children said that

the tragedy highlighted the need for the state to issue a minimum legal age limit for marriage and to start a national awareness campaign of the dangers of having sex