Man spared jail for defilement as court finds he had a mind of 'a young person'

Justice William Musyoka at a Milimani court during the judgement on swearing in of the 41 judges. [Collins Kweyu,Standard]

A man who defiled a 15-year-old while he was 18 has been sent on a non-custodial sentence of three years after an appeal court discovered he could have still be harbouring the mind of "a young person".

Justice William Musyoka of Kakamega said the punitive nature of such offences notwithstanding, the offender would be better off serving an out-of-jail sentence to help reform rather than spend his productive years with hardcore crooks in jail as a lower court had previously decided.