Athiak Dau Riak was traditionally married for a record bride price last year, despite her mothers insistence that she was only 14, which led to threats of reprisals The mother of an alleged child bride has left a safe house in South Sudan to travel to be with her daughter after discovering the teenager is pregnant. Deborah Kuir Yach last year when she opposed a competition for her daughters hand in marriage, insisting that her child Athiak Dau Riak was only 14. Fear of reprisals from her husband and family forced her to leave her home in the capital, Juba, and go into hiding.
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