Under the sexual offences act, a person who commits the offence of defilement with a child aged eleven years or below can upon conviction be sentenced to life imprisonment.  Those found guilty of defiling children older than eleven but below eighteen can attract anywhere between 15 to 20 years in jail. In the second and final part of our special feature on child defilement, we look at how to prevent incidents and how to heal from those that could not be prevented.


Child abuse feature