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Judges: Boys unfairly punished for consensual sex

Court of Appeal judges Prof Otieno Odek, Patrick Kiage, GB Kariuki, William Oruko and Jamila Mohammed during a past proceeding. [Standard].

The Court of Appeal has freed a 26-year-old herds boy who had been jailed for defiling a teen after it found that the sex was consensual.

While making the ruling, judges Patrick Kiage, Otieno Odek and Asike Makhandia raised concern that the sexual offence Act could be skewed against the boy child.

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