By Danielle Enloe

What is Child Marriage?  When a young girl is forced to marry an older men  This Indian girls around the age of 13  44.5% marred by 18 years old  22.6% marred by 16 years old  2.6% marred by 13 years old

The Incident and Who it Involved  What India did after a young women was forced to marry and said I won’t.  Rekha Kalinda  The county of India

What Lead up to the Incident?  Common practice that nearly half of all Indian females got married before turning the legal age of 18

What Were the Results?  No child marriages have taken place in the surrounding villages where two other girls refused to marry  Similar approaches are meeting success in other regions

Why was this topic interesting?  Most of the stories where incidences where girls went with the marriages  This one was about a girl who said no to the man and her family  stopped child marriages in India