Nigerian Prosecutors Drop Murder Charges Against Child Bride Who Killed Husband

Wasilu Umaru is free at last. Murder charges leveled against the 14-year-old child bride who killed her 35-year-old husband because she did not love him and was forced to marry him, have been dropped.

According to BBC, the Kano State attorney general stated that the case would be dropped because Umaru is a minor, and also because the victim’s family have forgiven her.

Reports further state that “charges against the girl will be formally dropped once the court receives either a written or oral presentation from the office of Kano’s attorney general.”