Pressure mounts to amend Kenya’s Sexual Offences Act amid rising defilement cases
Concerns are growing over Kenya’s Sexual Offences Act No. 3 of 2006, following new data showing a sharp rise in defilement cases and their significant impact on the country’s prison population. Recent statistics indicate that sexual offences now account for over 31 percent of inmates in Kenyan prisons, with defilement cases comprising 78.3 percent of…

