Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1669

The judgment's rejection of the defence that the offender lacked criminal intent and did not know the victim's age in the offence of intercourse with a female without force, threats or deception, based on its statement that the appellant took the victim in his car and had intercourse with her therein to compel her family to agree to her marriage to him, the established fact that the victim's age on the day of the incident was seventeen years, eight months and eight days, and the absence from the papers of any evidence satisfying the court that the appellant's excuse of ignorance of that age should be accepted. Sound. 28- Defence of absence of connection with some of the accused:-