This undated photo provided by the Coconino County Sheriff's Office shows Samuel Bateman. (Coconino County Sheriff's Office via AP, File) PHOENIX (CN) — Two more witnesses in a federal child sex abuse ...

12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law prohibiting child marriage, giving 10.3 million girls the chance to ...

A self-proclaimed religious “prophet” declared 20 women and children as his “wives” while leading a yearslong sexual abuse ring, according to federal prosecutors. Now he’ll spend the next five decades ...

12 year old Fawziyah Abdullah Youssef dies in childbirth after 3 days of labor. DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2009— -- After days of struggling through labor a 12-year-old "child bride" has died in Yemen ...

It’s been 14 years since model and influencer Courtney Stodden married Doug Hutchison, a former actor 35 years her senior. Stodden, just 16 at the time, shocked the world with the announcement. The ...

A child bride in Iran who was set to be executed after her husband died was saved after raising a hefty sum of money for the ...

"Our wishes were blatantly dismissed," the bride wrote on Reddit getty A bride is unsure if she should confront her cousin about bringing his baby to her child-free wedding Although the baby did not ...