Kenya: pastor's defilement conviction affirmed by the Court of Appeal
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2019-06-28
Appeal dismissed; conviction and sentence affirmed.
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Convicted
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pastor in Eldoret East
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A teenage girl and her pastor, with paternity proving the assault.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
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Proceedings
2019-06-28 · conviction affirmed twice; resentencing petition rejected
Kenyan trial court; High Court at Eldoret (2015); Court of Appeal at Kisumu. David Mutai, a pastor in Eldoret East, was convicted on three counts of defiling a sixteen-year-old girl in 2010 — DNA established his paternity of her child — and sentenced to fifteen years. The High Court at Eldoret affirmed in 2015 and the Court of Appeal at Kisumu dismissed his appeal on 28 June 2019; a later resentencing petition was rejected in 2021.
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- pastoral standing over a sixteen-year-old
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- official court judgment post conviction judgment Mutai v Republic [2021] KEHC 8160, via Kenya Law.
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- https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/kehc/2021/8160/eng@2021-03-18 Corpus classification: official-court-judgment; evidentiary role: post-conviction-judgment. SHA-256 92a156e39531d0fb990be04d9c6b395fdd527b883069c68d1db4f51d405103ae
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