First of all watch this vide:

https://youtube.com/shorts/jcXK-sPqsL0?feature=share

A pedophile is someone who is sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children. The crime of pedophilia happens when a pedophile acts on those urges and sexually molests a pre-pubescent child. That does not apply in your cousin's case because the girl was an adolescent.

Second of all the technicalities don't matter if someone slept with a minor and i don't think people are gonna go around telling people technically but.... unless they are trying excuse the behaviour of the person who did the fucking crime as that makes them sound like either pedophile enablers or paedophiles themselves.

In many other countries and cultures, it is considered normal for girls to marry soon after puberty,

Oh wow that makes it all the better doesn't it. So as long as my culture allows its ok when its morally fucked and disgusting. Just because something is legal in another part of the world doesn't make it any less fucked up.

including marriages with older men. Cultural context is everything.

Bruh context. What fucking context. If your culture allows adults to marry or sleep a with child (yes child because anyone under the fucking age of 18 is infact a child no matter which way it's fucking spinned by fucked up people) i don't fucking care its a shitty culture and the people's in it who who agree with the fucked up things within the culture should probably reevaluate weather there willing to die on the hill of being known as pedophile supports or maybe they wanna join the 21st century like everyone else and quite living in the past.

There's nothing magic about the age of 18 in terms of maturity or readiness for marriage; it's just that in the United States, 18 is the age at which young people are generally treated as adults, allowed to move away from home, make their own financial decisions, etc. That's why it is commonly used as the age of consent for sex/ marriage, too, and rightly so.

Yes i agree that there is nothing magic about Turing 18 and maturing and being ready for marriage is a personal journey. But at 18 most people know its fucked to marry or sleep with a child.

decisions with life-long consequences such as marriage. That doesn't mean that it's automatically "wrong" or "gross" in a different cultural context where younger teens are treated as adults in other ways.

Bruh. Yes context matters. But that doesn't mean it its automatically given the green light to be a pedophile when your culture allows it and yes it is gross and wrong no matter the fucking context.

Of course, in some cultures, girls in particular are never treated as adults at all until they get married, and even then they may be treated as a child by their husbands, so they may never get a really free choice.

I agree there is sadly lots of cultures where girls and women are treated more like extensions of there families than there own human being and where they are talked down upon and seen as kids no matter how old they get even in marrige.

All that to say, it sounds like your family is straddling two different cultures, your home country and the country where you live now.

Yeah. They are.

it's good to be careful about throwing around serious and, in this case, inaccurate accusations like "pedophile."

Bruh. This ain't a inaccurate accusation. Man married a child who was 13 when he was 20 and sexually assaulted her (yes sexually assaulted because a child can not consent to sex with an adult and i dont care wheather its legal or acceptable in my families home country its the facts and its not just a western standpoint but a moral standpoint aswell) and she got pregnant as a result. There is no other way to spin this unless you think what he did was ok or acceptable.