NEW DELHI: A 13-year-old girl's marriage to her adult step-brother after he impregnated her is sparking outrage in Tunisia A local court in Kef, Tunisia ruled that the unnamed girl, who is two years below the age of consent, "is considered fit for marriage" and permitted the pair to get married.A report published in The Independent stated that court officials interviewed the girl, after which they claimed that while there had been sexual relations between the step-siblings, the girl had not been raped.The pair was married soon after the court's decision, despite their parents' desperate efforts to stop the wedding.Under Tunisian law, having sex with anyone under the age of 15 is a punishable offense, and can land the guilty party in prison for up to six years. But a legal loophole allows the rapist to evade prosecution by marrying the victim.The incident has brought furious Tunisians out onto the streets in protest against the court's decision and an archaic, flawed law that lets the perpetrator get away with his crime.Demonstrators waved placards outside the national Parliament , some of which read, "How I met your mother? I raped her when she was 13."The government's child protection agency called for the marriage to be annulled, blasting the court's ruling as a violation of child rights Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has promised that a bill to change the law will be a "priority" to counter violence against women. He also vowed that 2017 would be "the year of the child."