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To lower or raise age of consent isn't the question, rather how best can we protect our children?

There is a raging debate on whether to raise or lower the age of consent, which is 18 years in Kenya. The debate went a notch higher last week when one of the judges being interviewed for the post of Chief Justice was said to have set free a man charged for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

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