The High Court in Nairobi has suspended two defilement trials involving teenagers, calling for the case files from the magistrates’ court amid a legal battle over whether there should be a blanket ban on sexual relations between adolescents.
Justice Bahati Mwamuye, in his ruling on Friday, said the case before him raised crucial questions about whether teenagers engaged in consensual sex should face the wrath of the law for defilement just as adults.
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