article_snippet: The girl, now 14, said in Court 's religion, marriage was allowed once Court got Court period and having sex before marriage was punishable by stoning or death in Islamic countries. '
article_snippet: boys' a court also heard her husband approached Court about the marriage after Father had been refused by leaders at Court usual mosque. '
article_snippet: her mother said her mother found out they couple had been married under Sharia law when the Department of Community Services got involved after the girl's husband tried to enrol her mother in a Sydney High school.
article_snippet: The 27-year-old Lebanese student and the young girl spent The 27-year-old Lebanese student and the 12-year-old Australian girl wedding night at a motel in the Hunter region of NSW where The 27-year-old Lebanese student and the 12-year-old Australian girl had sex several times .
article_snippet: The following morning, The 27-year-old Lebanese student and the 12-year-old Australian girl asked The 27-year-old Lebanese student and the 12-year-old Australian girl if her daughter needed to shower before prayers, in line with Islamic practice after sexual intercourse, the court was told .
article_snippet: The pair held The pair 'wedding', which was allegedly arranged by the young girl , in the young girl's lounge room in the Hunter region in NSW, in January last year.
article_snippet: The girl, now 13, didn't want to marry the student because of the 14 year age gap but the girl's husband bombarded the student with text messages after the girl's husband first laid eyes on the young girl in a mosque in November 2013, court papers stated.
article_snippet: Court documents say the young girl met the 27-year-old man at a mosque in November 2013  after the girl's husband approached the young girl and asked to meet the young girl.
article_snippet: The Imam who performed the ceremony pleaded guilty to solemnising the marriage and was fined $500. 'the young girl has expressed a strong desire to start a family with the [then] 26-year-old,' the police report states.