Akos (not real name) was given in marriage as the fourth wife to Baabamu at the age of thirteen. Even though her physical looks could pass for an eighteen year old, she was psychologically undeveloped.
At sixteen when she had her first child, she could not even breastfeed as she did not have enough breast milk. Now at the age of thirty she has six children and still hoping for more.
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