Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 559

The judgment’s rejection of the defence that the perpetrator lacked criminal intent and did not know the victim’s age in the offence of having sexual intercourse with a female without force, threat, or deception, on the grounds it stated that the appellant took the victim in his car and had sexual intercourse with her therein to compel her family to agree to her marriage to him, that the victim’s age on the day of the incident was established as 17 years, 8 months, and 8 days, and that the case papers contained no evidence on which the court could confidently accept the appellant’s excuse that he was ignorant of that age. Reasonable.