a twelve year old girl was kidnapped by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them. in ethiopia, apparently kidnapping, beating, and even rape are used to coerce women into marriage. but when the group of men began beating her, three lions emerged from the forest and drove them away, guarding the girl until her relatives and the police came for her. the situation they put this girl in is horrifying, but with the ending it sounds like an old fairy tale, before the darkness was taken out of them.
i love the image of rare ethiopian lions swooping down on a group of men, with their black manes and fiery eyes. the policeman who found her said, "they stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest."
let’s hope that people in this area are superstitious enough to think that she is under the lions’ protection. no one would dare touch her again.
this makes me even more excited for the
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