Father of Islamic bride, 12, gave her sex tips, court papers claim
Lema Samandar
The Daily Telegraph
May 22,2014
THE father of a 12-year-old child bride advised her to only have unprotected sex after he organised for her to wed an older man in an Islamic ceremony, court papers claim.
In a case that has shocked the nation, the girl’s 61-year-old Muslim convert father was charged with procuring his young daughter for sex and being an accessory before the fact to child sex after consenting to her “marrying” a 26-year-old man.
The girl’s “husband” was charged with 25 counts of sexual intercourse with a child after he wed the girl in the living room of her Hunter Region family home on January 12.
They had met at a mosque through the girl’s father, who police allege facilitated the relationship by allowing them to exchange phone numbers and letting them meet three times before they were wed.
The matter was yesterday mentioned in Burwood Local Court, where the man and the girl’s father were expected to enter a plea. However the magistrate was told the parties needed more time to negotiate with authorities.
For the first time, The Daily Telegraph was granted access to court papers filed in support of a successful AVO application brought by police against the girl’s father earlier this year. The court papers claim that on the day of the wedding her father gave the girl sexual advice.
“The advice was that she should not use the contraceptive pill nor should (her husband) wear a condom when they have sexual intercourse,” the papers said.
The pair stayed at a motel in Nelson Bay on their wedding night and had sex several times that night, police allege.
They then moved into a home in southwest Sydney but visited her father’s home five times before the 26-year-old Lebanese international student was arrested in February.
Her father even organised a queen size bed for the pair and on one occasion allegedly asked the girl if she needed to shower before morning prayers. The girl, now 13, told him she did need to shower.
“The (girl) indicated that this is how the defendant would have known that (they) were engaged in sexual intercourse,” the papers claim. It is a requirement of Islam to shower after sex and before commencing prayer, the girl allegedly told police.
Asked about having knowledge of his daughter having sex he said: “It’s not something I want to think about.”
When the father was first told by police that the husband had been arrested he allegedly said “but they are married”.
The AVO application claims the father told police his main concern was his daughter was not committing “a sin against god” by having sex outside marriage, and he consented to the marriage because she was beginning to “become excited around boys” and he didn’t want her to live “a sinful life”.
Asked if he would allow his eight-year-old daughter to marry at 12, police allege the man said he would, to prevent the “sin” of sex before marriage.
The girl and her sister are now in Department of Community Services care.
The imam who performed the ceremony, Muhammad Riaz Tasawar, 35, was fined $500 after pleading guilty to solemnising the marriage.
The 26-year-old man is being held at Villawood Detention Centre after his visa was cancelled and the father is in custody. They will face court again in June.
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