A 16-year-old girl was “forcibly betrothed” by her parents in exchange for 1.15 million in bride price

A 16-year-old girl in Sichuan was married to someone else by her family with a bride price of 1.15 million. (Picture / flip from Weibo)

For money, even his own daughter can be betrayed! There is a 16-year-old girl in Sichuan, China, who was married off by her family for 260,000 RMB (approximately NT$1.15 million). Because she had no choice but to flee to Guangdong, she was brought back by the man’s relatives and friends. When she passed the expressway service area, she I took the opportunity to report to the police, and the incident came to light.

The police received a report on the 14th of this month and learned that the girl was coerced in the expressway service area. The cause was that the girl’s parents betrothed her to a local man without her consent and received a bride price of 260,000 yuan. Powerless to resist, she chose to flee to Guangdong to work. However, her husband is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He dispatched family and friends to find someone and forcibly took her away from the factory dormitory. On the way, she passed a highway service area. She urgently asked the service area staff for help on the grounds that she needed to go to the toilet. Ask the other party to call the police.

The girl took the opportunity to ask the staff at the rest station for help. (Picture / flip from Weibo)

After the incident, the police cooperated with relevant departments to investigate, and following understanding the ins and outs of the incident, they contacted the girl’s family and sent her to a juvenile protection center. The girl’s father and second brother came from Sichuan on the 17th. The authorities patiently persuaded her family and provided psychological counseling to the girl. Then the staff prepared food and daily necessities for them, helped them buy train tickets, and sent the girl’s family home.

After the news was exposed, netizens mightn’t understand the police’s approach, and they left messages and bombarded: “Can this be sent home? Why don’t you send it to your parents first?”, “Can this kind of person be arrested and jailed?”, “Send it back Home, that’s it?”, “Her life is really miserable, why send her back to that fire pit”.