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Defilement man freed because minor 'behaved like an adult'

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The High Court has released a man who had been jailed for 15 years for defiling a minor after ruling she was "behaving like an adult".

Omus Kiringi got back his freedom after the court ruled that the 16-year-old girl he had sex with "enjoyed the same way an adult would do until she got pregnant".

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