Sex conviction crumbles as age-switch mystery rocks court
A High Court judge in Lilongwe has ordered the immediate release of a man known as CM. The man had been sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old girl in Dedza. The conviction was overturned because the man was tried as an adult despite actually being a child at the time of the incident.
A High Court judge in Lilongwe has ordered the immediate release of a man who was jailed for 16 years after being tried as an adult, when he was in fact still a child. The man, identified only as CM, was convicted after pleading guilty to having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old girl in Dedza […] The post Sex conviction crumbles as age-switch mystery rocks court appeared first on Malawi News | Breaking News, Politics, Business & Sports | Nyasa Times .