Read the OP’s words again. She clearly stated her friend said she was sexually assaulted. Not harrassment. I am not stupid enough to confuse the two terms, and no where in my post did I say anything about being sexually harassed. And even if OP’s friend was sexually harassed by someone and then she was forced to be married to that man, in my eyes that is still an atrocity.
I am putting myself in the friend’s shoes. If I was forced to marry that man, and let’s face it, girls in our culture are not as strong as we are meant to be and we can’t easily and readily reject every rishta that is come to us, then once I have gathered the courage, I would also leave the man. Because I don’t want to face that man who did that to me as a child day after day after day. I wouldn’t want to be touched by him. No woman in her right mind would want to feel like that. What happened to the friend as a child, no matter what definition you give her, and btw, the definition I posted covers sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault, if you bothered to read the entirety of my post, is WRONG. End of story. There is no point arguing about it. As for the children, there is no point keeping children in a marriage where there is not peace. IF there was peace, but no love, then that is workable. But if there are constant fights, no peace, children can see that the parents can’t stand each others guts, then they internally blame themselves for those problems, even though it is never their fault.
As for your sentence “what went on with the girl”, what do you want? You want the friend to list detail by every excruciatingly detail all the abuse that was done to her? Really?? You want to assess whether she was correctly assaulted or not, or whether it can pass by as harassment? Really?? I am absolutely astonished that 1 sentence.