City Hall Court Grade One Magistrate Valerian Tuhimbise has sentenced two teenage lovers to community service after pleading guilty to engaging in sexual intercourse while they are below the age of 18 years.
The convicted lovers are a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, both residents of Kyebando Kisalosalo in Kampala.
The duo pleaded guilty to offence and have been ordered to do community service at Mawanda Road police station.
In Uganda, the legal age for sexual consent is 18. Meanwhile, Ugandan laws don’t provide for the child to child sex offence. However, an adolescent who sexually abuses a child below their age is still liable to answer for aggravated defilement.