Another child bride case reported

PETALING JAYA: Another case of a child bride has been reported as the uproar over the marriage of a 41-year-old man to a 11-year-old girl continues to rage.
A 19-year-old from Terengganu has married a 13-year-old girl from Kelantan at a mosque in Kampung Pulau Nibong in Southern Thailand on June 20.
Ibrahim Husin, 67, the kadi who performed the akad nikah, said the couple approached him with two witnesses, and a wali, who was the bride's uncle.
"The girl's uncle told me that his niece wanted to get married and he was willing to be the wali," the New Sunday Times quoted Ibrahim as saying in an exclusive report.

"I asked for all the relevant documents and, seeing that everything was in order, I performed the akad nikah for them. The akad nikah was done at Al-Uluwi-ah Mosque here on June 20."
They were advised to register their marriage with the Narathiwat Islamic Religious Council and Malaysian religious authorities.
The newspaper said Ibrahim did not know whether the couple had done so.
"As far as I am concerned, I have fulfilled my responsibility. They wanted to get married and, according to the syariah law, they can marry as long as they have the wali, who must be either the bride's father, male sibling or close male relative, and the girl has gone through puberty," he said.