Penal Code
146. Defilement of person suffering from mental illness
146. Defilement of person suffering from mental illness
Any person who, knowing a person to be a person suffering from mental illness, has or attempts to have unlawful carnal connection with him or her under circumstances not amounting to rape, but which prove that the offender knew at the time of the commission of the offence that the person was a person suffering from mental illness, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen years.[Act No. 3 of 1969, First Sch., Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 20, Act No. 19 of 2023, Sch.]Source: Kenya Law