Gallery: Kenyan girls sold into marriage

Published Dec 11, 2014

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This is the heartbreaking moment young girls in Kenya are sold into arranged marriages for a dowry of livestock.

It is part of a traditional ceremony which marks their passing into womanhood.

Clad in tribal jewellery and with their hair tied up in braids, some of the women can be seen struggling as they are hauled away, traded by their fathers for 20 goats, three camels, and ten cows.

Many of the girls, who are members of the Pokot tribe, are not aware they have been bargained away until their husbands come to collect them after spending a month in isolation before the ceremony takes place.

Daily Mail

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