We found out through the ARA, devastated. of the price they paid The buyers of a fourteen-year-old girl. They wanted her and got her by "marrying" her to their twenty-year-old son. The girl's parents thought it was a good deal and handed her over, perhaps satisfied with the transaction. The buyers took her and put her to work begging. They paid five thousand euros and five bottles of whiskey.

The judge investigating the alleged "sale" of a 14-year-old girl from Navarre to force her into marriage with a young man from Lleida has provisionally closed the case. The decision comes after the minor declared that her stay in Catalonia was voluntary, as confirmed to EFE by sources close to the investigation. The judge considered the girl's testimony more relevant than the other evidence, and the five detainees—the girl's parents, the 21-year-old man to whom she was allegedly married, and his parents—were released. The girl has already returned to Navarre with her parents. The Civil Guard arrested the girl's parents in Navarre, and the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested the alleged buyers in Mollerussa. The first two were brought before the court in Tudela, and the other three before the court of first instance and preliminary investigation in Lleida for the alleged crimes of human trafficking for the purpose of forced marriage and child begging. Sources close to the investigation indicated that the minor testified in court that she was living in Lleida of her own free will and denied being forced into marriage or begging. According to the Civil Guard, the union was performed following a pilgrimage ritual, which has no legal validity unless formalized legally according to civil or religious law recognized by the State. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) also have information about the celebration held months earlier for the wedding. These types of ceremonies are purely cultural, have no legal effect, and are only valid between consenting adults. For the police, the case fits the pattern of human trafficking for the purpose of forced marriage, considering her age (at 14, there can be no consent to marriage), the transfer between regions, the financial exchange for the alleged wedding, and the potential for exploitation.

Five people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the forced marriage of a 14-year-old girl, whom her parents sold for €5,000 and five bottles of whiskey. Those arrested are her parents and the buyers: the 20-year-old man she married and her parents, all three residents of Mollerussa (Pla d'Urgell). The girl disappeared in January in the town of Corella, Navarre, and after the forced marriage, she was forced to beg to provide money for the family who bought her. The Civil Guard began investigating the case following a report to Navarrese social services alerting them that the parents of a Romanian family might have sold their teenage daughter into marriage. The Civil Guard's Women and Minors Unit identified the girl's parents, a 35-year-old man and woman. The Civil Guard also located the minor in Catalonia and began coordinating with the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), the Civil Guard explained in a statement this Saturday. On Friday, October 3, the Mossos d'Esquadra received a report that a girl was begging outside a supermarket in Les Borges Blanques (Les Garrigues). Initially, the Mossos took the minor to the police station to identify her, as she was not carrying any documents, and they also confirmed that she was not enrolled in school. Sources within the force explained to ARA that the officers investigated whether the girl was begging on someone's orders. When they asked if there was an adult who could take responsibility for her, a couple arrived at the police station who introduced themselves as her aunt and uncle. However, they turned out to be her in-laws, aged 40 and 42, who had paid for her to marry their 20-year-old son.