Let's Protect our Future: Tackling the Issue of Defilement in Kenya
The sad nature of this occurrence is that even after having the Sexual Offences Act of 2006, amongst other laws prohibiting various sexual offenses, there is still a shocker when we look into the rising numbers of sexual offenses, including defilement cases. Such cases are not really evidenced by the mere fact that they have been reported by the victims, but by the fact that we can see the not-seeable scenes of young girls, now young mothers, bearing unwanted pregnancies. Image by Freepik It is clearly noted via an English case, Pugh vs. Pugh, 133 W. Va. 501, 56 S.E.2d 901 (1949 ), that it is not only socially but morally wrong for one to cause one to be legally united in such a union as marriage but also allow such children to engage in carnal knowledge that may lead to their being recognized as child bearers and falling into the traps of such stresses. Defilement is well defined as having carnal knowledge with anyone considered a minor (one under the age of 18). The said of...