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To go with "INDIA-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CRIME" by Annie BANERJI In this photograph taken on August 24, 2015, 20 year old Indian student Santa Devi Meghwal, a victim of child marriage holds a photograph of the ceremony, in Jodhpur. Meghwal was only 11 months-old when her elders married her to a nine-year-old boy from a neighbouring village in the desert state of Rajasthan, where rates of child marriages have long been high. AFP PHOTO / MONEY SHARMA (Photo credit should read MONEY SHARMA/AFP/Getty Images)

To go with "INDIA-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CRIME" by Annie BANERJI
In this photograph taken on August 24, 2015, 20 year old Indian student Santa Devi Meghwal, a victim of child marriage holds a photograph of the ceremony, in Jodhpur. Meghwal was only 11 months-old when her elders married her to a nine-year-old boy from a neighbouring village in the desert state of Rajasthan, where rates of child marriages have long been high.  AFP PHOTO / MONEY SHARMA        (Photo credit should read MONEY SHARMA/AFP/Getty Images)