I felt a cold shiver run through me this week when I heard the story about the 41-year-old man marrying an 11-year-old girl. According to reports, the rubber trader from Kelantan said he first met the child in the restaurant where her mother worked, adding they had been “in love for three years”.
Three years? So this “relationship” began when she was just eight?!
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