Facebook Post Auctioning Child to Highest Bidder for 500 Cows, Two Luxury Cars Called ‘Biggest Test of Child Abuse’
(The Guardian) — Facebook has been criticized for failing to remove a viral post promoting an auction of a child bride in South Sudan, which eventually led to the payment of the largest dowry ever recorded in the civil war-torn country. The highest bidder was a man three times the age of the 17-year-old girl who was auctioned. At least four other men in Eastern…
