TEHRAN For the first time in Iran's judicial history, a court here sentenced a 15-year-old female teenager to "house arrest" for a period of three months.
The teen was found to be a juvenile delinquent, a press report said on Sunday.
The government-run daily Iran said the girl left her home in protest to her father's decision to marry for a second time.
She was arrested a week later.
Judge Ahmad Mozaffari, ruling without precedence, sentenced "Maryam" to house arrest after she failed to give convincing reasons for her actuations during the trial where she was seen behaving like a child with her hands crossed.
She told the judge that she wanted to punish her father who wanted to marry a 20-year-old girl.
Her parents divorced after her mother decided to go abroad.
Asked by the judge why she opposed her father's intended marriage, Maryam replied: "My father should marry a widow as otherwise he would not live a happy life." (IRNA)