The whole thread appears to be based on a tale that never happened.
Where is the proof the incident addressed in the OP happened?
Look at the Zionists demonizing Muslims here over an incident that appears to have never even happened.
It happens quite a lot worldwide and is a serious issue. Unfortunately some don't care much unless it involves Muslims.
I was trying to understand how this story could be getting all this attention when it might not even be true. Then, I read the story about Sally and I saw how her family forced the marriage on her, as a child, even drugging her to make her compliant to her husband after she was married. And she later got the marriage annulled with the help of activists I think.
And it was all tied up with money the family received when she was married and the poverty in families. They did not want her to leave the marriage to her first cousin and have to give back the money they received for her. I wonder if this child, the story in the OP, was trying to avoid a marriage she felt her family might be planning to force her into. Looking at it from the standpoint of the stories these child brides actually tell, like Sally,
it seems cultural and tied up with economics more than anything else. Certainly not a practice that defines all Muslims.