Nairobi. A Kenyan court ruled on Wednesday that sections of a law targeting sexual offences in the East African nation cannot apply to minors found to have had consensual intercourse, a decision that rights groups expect to set a precedent in how the country handles relationships among adolescents.
Rights advocates said the decision would curb arrests and prosecutions of adolescents for consensual peer relationships and force reforms in policing, prosecution and access to confidential youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services.
The Centre for Reproductive Rights and the Reproductive Health Network Kenya on behalf of three adolescents, and the Network for Adolescent and Youth of Africa (NAYA) filed a case in August 2025 challenging four sections of the Sexual Offences Act, saying it was inapplicable to minors having consensual intercourse.
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