Tanzania, April 11 -- It is not every day that you come across a judge with a delightfully wicked sense of justice and humour like Justice Anne Ong'iinjo of the Kenya High Court, in Mombasa.

Confirming a guilty verdict handed out by a lower court to a Catholic priest, Father Dominic Muli Nzioka, for committing an indecent assault with a 16-year-old girl (he touched her inappropriately and might have done worse but for the intervention of the girl's mother), she nonetheless varied the sentence.

Justice Ong'iinjo set aside the priest's seven-year prison term and substituted it with a three-year probation, during which he would educate the flock about the Sexual Offences Act, the same law under which he had been found guilty.

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