A father of a 12-year-old girl who he married off in an Islamic ceremony told his daughter that it Australian laws forbidding her from marrying were 'stupid'. The father, who cannot be named legally, is on trial at Sydney's Downing Centre District Court charged with procuring a child for unlawful sexual activity and with being an accessory before the fact of sexual intercourse with a child. The girl told a Sydney court her father said Australian law was 'stupid' and girls her age should be allowed to get married and have sexual intercourse. Scroll down for video A 27-year-old man (pictured) has been sentenced to at least seven and a half years behind bars for marrying and sexually assaulting a 12 year old girl. Now her father is on trial for agreeing to the arrangement because he discovered that his daughter was' menstruating and interested in boys' a court heardFather charged for sending his 12-year-old daughter to be marriedCourt heard his reason was he did not want her to have extramarital sexGirl tells court her father said laws surrounding marriage were 'stupid''He knows no marriage under 16,' the girl said in an video interview playedCourt heard he told his daughter girls her age should be able to have sexGirl married 26-year-old in Islamic ceremony at her father's home in 2014
'After he went to sheiks, after a while he came back and asked my _.'