If you didn’t know, it’s okay for
cousins to have sexual relationships in Kenya!
Apparently Kenyan law hasn’t criminalized sexual relationships
between cousins; high court ruling on an ‘incestuous’ relationship has stunned
the nation.
High Court judge James Makau
found that the Sexual Offenses Act did not mention cousins among the list of
relatives under the offence of incest.
Reading his ruling in a case where a woman took her nephew to
court for having sex with her daughter, Makau stated that sex and marriages
between cousins was permissible because there are no provisions for it in the
law.
“The National Assembly did not leave out the clause on cousins by
intension but by the fact that in some cultures in Kenya, like the Hundus and
Muslims, allow sexual acts and marriage between cousins. It is not
criminalized,” The Standard quoted the high court judge.
The accused in the said ‘incestuous relationship’ appealed the
case at the High Court after a lower court found him guilty of incest and
sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
The High court found him not guilty of incest and suspended the
jail term he had been handed by the lower court.
Credit: The Standard.
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