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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Eldoret, Kenya · 2019

Kenya: pastor's defilement conviction affirmed by the Court of Appeal

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor in Eldoret East

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

A teenage girl and her pastor, with paternity proving the assault.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 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.

Appellate history

  1. 2019-06-28 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral standing over a sixteen-year-old

Primary record

Sources

official court judgment post conviction judgment Mutai v Republic [2021] KEHC 8160, via Kenya Law.

Court record confirming the conviction history and appellate outcomes.

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