— Kansas City Star: Man charged with statutory rape in ‘marriage’ to 14-year-old girl
— Kansas City Star reports:
— “The stepfather, Mosby and the teen had several ‘sit downs’ before the stepfather arranged for a religious ceremony on Aug. 4 at her home, not far from the stepfather’s mosque.”
— “Two members of the mosque attended, but the bride ‘was not allowed to be present,’ court records said. She waited in her room upstairs. Her stepfather allegedly came upstairs after the ceremony, which consisted of prayers and a contract signing, to announce that she was married.”
— “Police say they have the ‘marriage contract’ with the signatures of Mosby, the girl and the stepfather.”
— “In Islam, boys and girls are considered adults based on when they hit puberty, and people in some parts of the world do marry young, said Mahnaz Shabbir of Stilwell, a past president of the Heartland Muslim Council.”