Judges should not approve an application by a child to marry, simply because the child has had sex, said a former mufti.

Sex between an adult and a girl who has not yet attained the age of consent of 16 is legally defined as statutory rape.

Former Terengganu mufti Ismail Yahya said under Islamic law, the man in such a situation should actually be stoned to death if he was married to someone else, instead of allowed to marry the child.