Nepal’s child brides


No looking back: Susmita is thankful that she is in school now. – AFP

Helpless and with little support from the authorities and their families, girls who are kidnapped and forced into marriage, face a bleak future in this Himalayan nation.

ON a freezing night three years ago, 13-year-old Susmita Kami sneaked out of her husband’s house and didn’t stop running until she reached the doorstep of her parents’ home in Nepal’s remote northwest.

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