To go with AFP story NepalchildrensocialmarriageFEATURE by Ammu KANNAMPILLY In this photograph taken on November 6 Nepalese schoolgirl Susmita Kami...
{"Image ImageDescription": "To go with AFP story Nepal-children-social-marriage,FEATURE by Ammu KANNAMPILLY \nIn this photograph taken on November 6, 2014, Nepalese schoolgirl Susmita Kami (C), 16, studies at school in Simikot, the headquarters of Humla district, some 430 kms north-west of Kathmandu. On a freezing night three years ago, 13-year-old Susmita Kami sneaked out of her husband's house and didn't stop running until she reached her parent's doorstep in Nepal's remote northwest. Her escape from a forced marriage -- a tradition many teenage girls from the Himalayan nation's Dalit community are expected to uphold -- was soon under threat. But Susmita's parents resisted demands from her in-laws to send her back, deciding to stand by their pleading daughter who desperately wanted a better life. AFP PHOTO / PRAKASH MATHEMA        (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)"}