James Oaten

It's alleged that when the father...

Muhammad purchased this Yazidi slave for 10,000 US dollars.

He's then taken her to meet the wife, Khosa, and then she has approved the sale, saying, yep, she will do, essentially.

So that's what makes Khosa's charges, from what we know so far, a little more serious.

She's facing three charges as opposed to two of the daughter.

Mm-hmm.

But during this period as well, the complainant or the alleged victim here has described Zainab Ahmed as like the, quote, deputy of the house.

So the allegations against Zainab Ahmed is not that she physically assaulted the girl, but that she did order her around, prevented her from leaving the home and mistreated her badly, but no allegations there of physical assault from Zainab.

Yeah, so first of all, I mean, there is a suppression order on revealing her, given that the allegations here against, you know, relating to sexual violence and so on.

And she was a minor as well at the same time.

There's a lot of details we don't fully know about the actual investigation for two reasons.

First of all, this is a bail hearing that we've had with Zainab Ahmed and then obviously with Korsar, the mother.

that's not really a time to start examining all the evidence in detail.

The way these things go is, first of all, the bail hearing is primarily about understanding the charges and then using essentially a risk assessment tool to work out whether or not bail should be granted.

Later down the process, then you have a committal hearing, which is where a magistrate does assess the evidence at what is available and then makes a decision whether or not

the evidence that is available is satisfactory for the case to go to trial.

And, you know, presuming along this whole way the accused is still defending themselves, then you end up with a trial where the jury will actually make a decision as well.

So that takes time.

So this is not really the time things are going to be tested thoroughly in the evidence.

So federal police have spelt out in the prosecution of alleged in the court is that, first of all, she showed clear and repeated support for Islamic State during some years that she was there.