And by “marry” I mean her Muslim mother and step-father, mysteriously concerned with virginity despite keeping her under lock and key, decided to Islam away this problem by selling her to a violent degenerate who later (allegedly) shot at the girl’s disapproving relatives.

From Kansas City.com:

Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said.

Mosby, 23, of Kansas City didn’t legally wed his 14-year-old bride, however, because Missouri law won’t allow it without a judge’s order. Police said she was pressured into the union because her mother and stepfather thought she was going to be sexually active with a boy her age.

Although the bride’s stepfather arranged the “marriage,” according to court records, other relatives frowned upon the union and told police in late August. The relatives also took the girl to protect her from further sexual abuse, according to court records.

A relative told police that Mosby called and threatened violence if family members didn’t “give me back my wife in 72 hours,” according to court records. Two days later, on Sept. 9, someone fired three shots into the Kansas City home of the girl’s aunt. No one was hit.

Why the rush to get the girl married off to someone they know to be volatile? What kind of step-father would marry off his step-daughter to someone who either fired at his in-laws, or contracted out for someone else to do it?

Even though the parents are traditional Muslims who no doubt kept a close eye on their children, the step-father began pushing the idea that “soon” she would begin having sex with some boy her own age. Not that she had a boyfriend mind you. She just was, at 14, itching to have sex according to the step-father:

Police said the girl’s stepfather and mother became concerned that she was going to become sexually active, so the stepfather allegedly approached Mosby about marrying the girl. The girl was “strongly encouraged” to wed Mosby, police said.

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.

Wow. The step-father sure seemed to be in a hurry to get her married and thus sexually active with someone. Seems odd since he was supposedly so concerned with her overwhelming sexual appetite. Maybe some religious instruction would have been in order, rather than a marriage to a cretin. And how did the happy day go for the blushing, yet according to the step-father, hot in the pants bride?

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.

The contract also notes the dowry the girl requested from Mosby — a watch and ring, which he told police he bought at Wal-Mart.

I’m going out on a limb and saying that it was a man’s watch and ring Mosby purchased. If this sounds like the girl’s step-father was pimping her out, this next passage will no doubt reinforce that conviction:

Court records said the couple had sex three times in August in her home, while her mother and stepfather were home. The girl did not move in with Mosby. She stayed with her parents and kept in touch with Mosby through phone calls and text messages.

If I were the kind of blogger given to being suspicious of his fellow man I’d almost think that the step-father seemed to be in a rush to cover his tracks so to speak. After all, he could have waited a few years to marry her off, but was obsessed with the idea she “would start having sex” which is odd to say the least.

Marrying her off to someone but keeping her in the house, close at hand, is also odd. As is letting this other person have sex with her while he’s puttering around the kitchen. Why wouldn’t he want his 14-year-old step-daughter, who he presents as being out-of-control sexually, to live with her “husband” after he went through such pains to marry her off?

Could it be that the kind of man who sells his step-daughter for Wal-Mart jewelry is also the kind of man who would molest his step-daughter? Is this marriage a sham? A cover for him to continue the abuse? Is “traditional” Islam attractive to this person because it allowed him to indulge in his criminality and depravity unrestricted?

Hey, I’m just asking questions as they say, but this all sounds pretty suspicious to me. Not, however, to the people of his Mosque, who have yet to speak out about this.