The British taxpayer-funded news service: "Look at these dads that have no choice but to sell their daughters as sex slaves to their relatives!"
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You'll notice a big, fat community note on that sucker.
BBC frames Afghan fathers selling daughters as sympathetic. All profiled cases involve girls (e.g. 5-year-old). Selling daughters for marriage is a longstanding cultural practice in parts of Afghanistan. BBC focuses on fathers' distress over outcomes for the girls (rape).
Here's a quote from the BBC story:
Abdul tells us he is willing to sell his girls for marriage, or for domestic work. 'If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years,' he says.
He hugs Rohila, kissing her as he cries. 'It breaks my heart, but it's the only way.'
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Another man says he was "forced" to sell his little girl to a relative to pay for her medical bills:
Saeed Ahmad tells us he has already been forced to sell his five-year-old daughter, Shaiqa, after she got appendicitis and a cyst in her liver.
'I had no money to pay the medical expenses. So I sold my daughter to a relative,' he says.
Here's video from the BBC's report:
[Warning: If you are a father, this will enrage the very core of your soul]
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