8-Year-Old Child Marries 61-Year Old Woman

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TSHWANE, SOUTH AFRICA — I wouldn’t have believed it if there weren’t any pictures but it seems that in South Africa, an 8-year-old kid married a 61-year-old woman.

8-Year-old – Sanele Masilela, married his 61-year-old wife – Helen Shabangu because… get this now, his dead ancestors told him to.

Fearing divine retribution, the child’s parents forked out £500 for the bride and an additional £1,000 for the child to marry the ALREADY married Helen Shabangu who has 5 children of her own.

By doing this we made the ancestors happy. If we hadn’t done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family.

Although a ceremony was documented, Sanele and Helen did not sign a marriage certificate and do not have to live together. Both have gone back to their normal lives.

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