Suicide of Two Teenagers, Including a Child Marriage Victim, in Kamyaran and Torbat-e Heydarieh
On Tuesday, the 3rd of Farvardin, a 17-year-old boy in the village of Marab, a suburb of Kamyaran in Kurdistan Province, committed suicide by hanging and lost his life. In another incident, a 15-year-old teenage girl who had recently been married committed suicide by consuming rat poison in Torbat-e Heydarieh city in Razavi Khorasan Province and died. The share of Iranian teenagers in annual suicides has been reported by the Forensic Medicine Organization to exceed 7 percent.
According to Hrana news agency, citing Kordpa, on Tuesday, the 3rd of Farvardin 1400, a teenager in Kamyaran city committed suicide and died.
His identity was identified as Reza Marabi, 17 years old, son of Moloud, resident of Marab village, a suburb of Kamyaran in Kurdistan Province.
According to this report, the teenager committed suicide by hanging.
Suicide of a Child Marriage Victim in Torbat-e Heydarieh
According to ISNA, a 15-year-old teenage girl who is a victim of child marriage committed suicide by consuming rat poison in Torbat-e Heydarieh city in Razavi Khorasan Province and died.
According to Javad Afrīdoun, the public relations officer of the health and treatment network in Torbat-e Heydarieh, the 15-year-old girl had recently been married.
Child marriage or child matrimony in Iran has been increasing in recent years. Child rights activists say this phenomenon will have negative effects on the health of Iranian families in the future.
The high statistics of marriages of children who marry before reaching intellectual and mental maturity indicate the prevalence of this phenomenon in Iran. The age of marriage in Iran is determined based on “sexual maturity,” while according to experts, sexual maturity is only one aspect of a person’s complete development. Growth, awareness, education, and freedom of choice are the most fundamental and humane conditions for forming a family.
The physical and psychological harms resulting from child marriage inflict irreparable blows on girls’ lives, particularly pregnancies under 18 years, maternal mortality, depression, and sometimes suicide attempts, alongside harms such as divorce, dropping out of school, and perpetuation of cycles of cultural and economic poverty.
Based on published statistics, approximately 95,000 cases of divorce of women under 19 years old were recorded between the years 1990 and 2015, of which about 5,760 divorces were related to marriages in which both spouses were under 15 years old.
The share of Iranian teenagers in annual suicides has been reported by the Forensic Medicine Organization to exceed 7 percent.
Source: Hrana
