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The ‘money wife’, a barbaric tradition in Cross Rivers robbing underage girls of their childhoods, turning them into sex slaves
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The ‘money wife’, a barbaric tradition in Cross Rivers robbing underage girls of their childhoods, turning them into sex slaves

A barbaric tradition known as “Money wife” in a remote village in Cross river state called Becheve where girls as young as 10 years old are being sold into marriage has been uncovered. Editor’s note: here is another related story. A Twitter user by name Tunde Onakoya who runs a Non-Governmental Organisation running a program…

Organ Harvesting’s Troubled Past — and Complicated Present
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Organ Harvesting’s Troubled Past — and Complicated Present

At an international conference on kidney transplantation in 1963, a disagreement broke out about exactly when a patient should be considered dead enough to become an organ donor. One doctor stood up, angrily declaring that he was not “going to just wait around for the medical examiner to declare the patient dead. I’m just going…