And so, to the idea that Mohammed was a "child rapist'. I've seen the slur repeated but I haven't seen any evidence for it.
'Aishah (RA), the mother of the believers, was between the ages of nine and nineteen at the time of the consummation of her marriage depending on which reports are deemed more accurate.
She (Asma) was the sister of Aisha Siddiqa, wife of the Holy Prophet, and was ten years older than her. … In 73 A.H. … Asma died at the age of one hundred years. - Mishkat al-Masabih
That would make 'Aishah 90 years old at the time of Asma's death and 18 in the year of the Hijra. The consummation of her marriage took place after the Hijra. Alternatively:
Narrated Hisham's father: Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old. - Sahih Bukhari, Merits of the Ansaar, no. 236
Western scholars have speculated that the age was artificially lowered to make it clear that 'Aishah was a virgin at the time of the marriage; this was called into question because she had previously been betrothed to Jubayr ibn Mut'im. Proving these allegations incorrect would have been important to the Abbasid Caliphate that was in power during the lives of both Bukhari and Muslim. Regardless of her age, accounts of her life in the ahadith make it clear that she was intelligent and scrupulous to such a degree that she would have been able to make the momentous decision to marry Muhammad (SAWS) at any age within that range. The baseless charges of "rape" are, of course, products of ignorance and anti-Islamic prejudice.
My apologies for the lengthy post, but I hope your question was answered.
