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Marriage official found married to minor

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An Egyptian man has been dismissed from his job as a marriage officiant at the Ministry of Justice after being found married to a minor girl under a customary marriage contract, local media reported.

According to media reports, the clerk liked a 14-year-old girl and decided to marry her, ignoring the fact that she was under the legal age of marriage.

He even brought a forged certificat­e claiming she was 16 years old and called a marriage officiant to tie the knot but the latter refused, suspecting that she was younger than the claimed age. However, the man brought another officiant and married the girl.

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