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Nigeria's kidnapped girls sold into marriage

More than 200 kidnapped girls and women have been reportedly sold into marriage with their Boko Haram abductors for $12. Scores of young girls and women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Boko Haram abductors, a local human rights group has reported. Halite Aliyu, of the Borno-Yobe People’s Forum, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that more than 200 girls who were kidnapped two weeks ago had been sold to the fighters for $12. Aliyu said the information given about the mass weddings was coming from villagers in the Sambisa Forest, on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon where Boko Haram was known to have a number of hideouts. "The latest reports are that they have been taken across the borders, some to Cameroon and Chad,'' Aliyu said. It was not possible to verify the reports. Community elder Pogu Bitrus of Chibok town, from where the girls were abducted, told the BBC's Hausa service that some of the kidnapped girls "have been married off to insurgents" MORE =========================== FBI Poised to Head to Nigeria to Help Rescue Kidnapped Girls Terrorist Group Vows to Sell Kidnapped School Girls in Nigeria ABC VIDEO