On August 19, 2021, Mohamed Swaleh Salim was found guilty of defiling a 16-year-old girl by the Magistrate’s Court in Lamu and sentenced to 15 years in jail.
He was charged and convicted under section 8(1) as read with section 8(4) of the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 63A which provides that a person who commits an act that causes penetration with a child is guilty of an offence termed defilement…and is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than 15 years.
