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Draft bill seeks to end sex crimes

Joyce Lay is one of the crusaders lobbying for the Children’s Act to be reviewed to ensure deterrent sentences are handed to those found guilty.

Taita Taveta Majority Leader Cromwell Baridi plans to introduce to the county assembly a controversial bill to help end rising cases of gender-based violence against minors.

The Anti-Sexual Offenses Bill will introduce punitive penalties like castration of the perpetrators, he says.

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