Police in northwestern China broke up the wedding of a 14-year-old girl whose parents allegedly tried to sell her into marriage with a stranger, authorities said.
The teenager called police in Zhongning county, Ningxia region during the wedding on November 24 to say she was being forced into the illegal marriage against her will, according to a post by the local Justice Bureau Monday.The post on social media platform WeChat described the local police's"quick and clever" response to the call in a positive light, but has since been deleted after drawing controversy online.
Early marriage was customary in China's feudal past, and even today, teenage brides and grooms are not unheard of in poor and rural regions, such as Ningxia.But the incident has shocked urbanites, who criticized the girl's parents for allegedly coercing her into marriage, saying they should be punished.
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