This image shows a girls with an intellectual disability crying next to her husband, who is more than twice her age, on what was to be their ‘wedding day’. Photo: Baidu This image shows a girls with an intellectual disability crying next to her husband, who is more than twice her age, on what was to be their ‘wedding day’. Photo: Baidu
This image shows a girls with an intellectual disability crying next to her husband, who is more than twice her age, on what was to be their ‘wedding day’. Photo: Baidu
China Society
People & Culture

Man’s ‘marriage’ to mentally and physically disabled woman in China less than half his age could be rape, lawyer says

  • Man claims the girl’s parents gave him ‘permission’ to ‘take care of her’
  • China’s one-child policy has been blamed for an army of unmarried men looking for brides

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Phoebe Zhang
Phoebe Zhang in Shenzhen

Updated: 6:45pm, 4 Mar, 2021

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This image shows a girls with an intellectual disability crying next to her husband, who is more than twice her age, on what was to be their ‘wedding day’. Photo: Baidu This image shows a girls with an intellectual disability crying next to her husband, who is more than twice her age, on what was to be their ‘wedding day’. Photo: Baidu
This image shows a girls with an intellectual disability crying next to her husband, who is more than twice her age, on what was to be their ‘wedding day’. Photo: Baidu
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