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Judge roots for protection of child offenders

A man who was jailed for life seven years ago while still a teenager for defiling a nine-year-old girl has been freed.

While delivering his judgment, Justice Joel Ngugi indicated that the trial court should have considered the age of the convict identified as PK before sentencing him to life.

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