Social Experiment Stages Child Bride Photoshoot in New York City

By Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio

Published February 24, 2016 11:03am PST

FOX 11 Los Angeles

Over 30,000 girls in the world get married while they're still children, and people have recently begun to raise awareness of this global epidemic.

YouTuber Coby Person staged a bridal photo shoot with an older gentleman and a 12-year-old girl in New York City, and predictably got some heated reactions.

See the social experiment in full here.

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