Youth on Trial, is a treatise on why a young life is in a pathetic condition. It is as if young life doesn't matter. Bringing up many questions both to the learned and the ignorant, husband and wife, teacher and the students, politics and religion, if it is true that God speaks in the "now".Our youths both in the institutions of Higher learning and on the streets are left with no hope in regard to their life situation. As though, they are serving a death sentence. It leaves many to wonder if their is any hope in the world for tomorrow.In this book, Dr. Simiyu argues, if God speaks, then-why all these subsections on young lives and there by gives direction on this.