Somali Man Aged 112 Marries 17-Year-Old Virgin
THE internet is alive with news that 112-year-old Ahmed Muhamed Dore has married Safia Abdulleh, age 17, in the Galguduud region of Somalia. Says Dore:
“Today God helped me realise my dream… I didn’t force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry.”
It’s a cracking story, and one backed up by no proof of wither parties ages, nor of their wedding. There exists no Jeremy Kyle equivalent in Somalia for us to watch the happy couple on the telly. No DNA test can prove the man’s age.
All we get is the story delivered as fact. And we get this gem from the Mail:
Somali adolescent girls are often married off to older men, but it is rare for a man as old as Dhore to marry a girl of Abdulle’s age.
Rare for a man of 112 to marry a teenager. How’s that for insight? Rare for a man to be 112 and find a need of a wife.
The BBC’s Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says the marriage in the town of Guriceel is being described by Somalian historians as the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa nation for over a century.
There have been a few 109 year olds and a 105 year old who married a toddler but not a single 112-year–old has married a 17-year-old since Samira Mirza married her toyboy in 1894.
This is kind of sensational, uncorroborated news that the internet loves. One person reports it. Everyone repeats it. It becomes a fact. If you see a source for the story, do tell…
Posted: 29th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True Comments (12) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 30th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
dis is bullshit man dat man is a pervert man wtf dirtyy cunt :@
October 30th, 2009 at 12:00 am
This loving couple should go on a honeymoon to Florida…they would fit in perfectly.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Theres hope for me yet
October 29th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Ah yes of course. She agreed! Duh. Like a 17 year old Somalian female in Somalia is given a lot of choice…. she was probably hijacked.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Hannah? Strange, one of my grannies was named Hannah.
You sound so similar, she was a country girl too.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Gariir, you could be correct he could still have intercourse at 112 and produce offspring with his young wife. However, the older a man becomes the sperm changes and the possibility arises of defects in the children.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2049549&page=1
October 29th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
as a somali,i can tell you that if the girl is marring for the first time IT IS ASUMED that she is virgin maybe anarok knows this .
by the way i dodnt thik it will be any problem for him to have children
October 29th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
it’s not perverted/ she agreed to marry him,
and btw im somalian you cunts
October 29th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
This Is Perverted, Dirty Old C*** Should Have A Heart Attack.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
They do do weird things over in those countries. They give sheeps, goats, etc. to families in exchange to get a girl/woman for a wife.
Yampster, does it really matter if the young girl is a virgin? I highly doubt even viagra or cialis could bring a rise to that occasion.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
lucky man
October 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Shame on you Anorka. None of the other ’sources’ says she’s a virgin. Did you just throw that in for our jaded palates?