The Huffington Post | By Simon McCormack
Posted: 07/22/2014 3:33 pm EDT
Updated: 07/25/2014 3:59 pm EDT
It’s not legal, it’s not sexual, but it is still disturbing.
A woman in her 60s, who is a mother of five, renewed her marriage vows with a 9-year-old boy in a wedding ceremony in South Africa earlier this month.
Helen Shabangu wed Sanele Masilela in a second ceremony in as many years on July 12 in Kildare Village, Ximhungwe.
The couple got married last year after Masilela said his dead ancestors told him to, according to Barcroft Media.
The second ceremony took place because the boy wanted to make it “official,” though members of both families made it clear that the marriage was not legally binding, the pair do not live together and, as the Independent reports, they don’t have sexual relations.