Child Marriage Survivor: I Was Introduced to Him in the Morning and Handed Over That Night

Sara Tasneem was 15 years old when she was married off to a 28-year old stranger. Her parents were divorced, and her deeply conservative father was a member of a Muslim sect in California. When she went to visit him during high school, "He told me I was going to have to get married and the Sheikh was going to pick who I was going to get married to," she recalls. "I never questioned my dad, ever." Thousands of U.S. teens are married before they turn 18 every year.