Child Brides Afghanistan
Add to Lightbox DownloadBibi Aisha, 19, is photographed in Afghanistan, May 13, 2010. In a practice known as "baad," Aisha's father promised her to a Taliban fighter when she was 6 years old as compensation for a killing that a member of her family had committed. She was married at 16 and subjected to constant abuse. At 18, she fled the abuse but was caught by police, jailed and then returned to her family. Her father-in-law, husband and three other family members took her into the mountains, cut off her nose and her ears, and left her to die. “I was a woman exchanged for someone else’s wrongdoing. [My new husband] was looking for an excuse to beat me.”
![Bibi Aisha, 19, is photographed in Afghanistan, May 13, 2010. In a practice known as "baad," Aisha's father promised her to a Taliban fighter when she was 6 years old as compensation for a killing that a member of her family had committed. She was married at 16 and subjected to constant abuse. At 18, she fled the abuse but was caught by police, jailed and then returned to her family. Her father-in-law, husband and three other family members took her into the mountains, cut off her nose and her ears, and left her to die. “I was a woman exchanged for someone else’s wrongdoing. [My new husband] was looking for an excuse to beat me.”](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000d7X1CxSBFr0/fit=1000x750/g=G00005Mj7zqEOdiU/SS20100513ChildBridesADDS03.jpg)
