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Mocha 9-year-old rape/murder trial…Accused admits having sex with victim
“Me and her walked until there was no shops… We went in de bush and Sade tek off she clothes and we continue doing, what we bin doing…sex.”
A mixed 12-member jury listened, as a police witness read aloud the caution statement of rape/murder accused, Jevon Wharton yesterday.
Wharton is accused of raping and murdering, nine-year-old, Barnwell North, Mocha resident, Sade Stoby, some time between, November 2, and November 5, 2007.
Sade Stoby
He is facing a trial before Justice Navindra Singh at the Georgetown High Court, along with his co-accused, Charles Cush.
The men were both teenagers at the time of the crime. Wharton now 23 years old, and his alleged accomplice Cush, 21, are being represented by Attorneys at Law Raymond Alli and George Thomas, respectively.
The body of the nine-year-old girl was discovered a short distance from her home, at Barnwell North, Mocha on November 5, 2007. She had been brutally raped and drowned.
On Tuesday, State Prosecutor, Judith Gildharie Mursalin told the court that a post mortem exercise conducted on Stoby’s body by Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh revealed the cause of death, to be asphyxiation due to submersion compounded by blunt trauma to head.
When Stoby’s body was recovered, she was bloated and she had haemorrhaged from her head and chest.
“There was a thick black mud in her trachea , her stomach was filled with dark black mud, blood in her vagina, her hymen was ruptured and her intestines were protruding through her anus; there was blunt trauma to head.
“There was bruising of the vagina which indicated sexual activity just before her death,” the Prosecutor had said.
After Justice Navindra Singh ruled on a voir dire, (a trial within a trial), which was conducted to determine admissibility of Wharton’s caution statement, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Elston Baird, was allowed to read the statement aloud, to the court.
According to Baird, on November 5, 2007 Wharton, who was sixteen years old at the time, told police investigators at Brickdam Police station that he met the girl, named Sade at the aqueduct bridge.
“Me and she walked until there was no shops. We went in de bush and Sade tek off she clothes and we continue doing, what we bin doing…sex. Then we when we finish she putting she clothes and she slip and fall and knock she head and I pick up me bicycle and ride away and on Saturday I bin back fuh see if I see she and she dead.”
When the case commenced on Tuesday, Stoby’s mother was the first person to take the stand. The child’s mother gave an emotional recollection of the incident.
The woman recalled vividly that her daughter went to school on November 2, but never returned. The woman said that after two days of a meticulous search, relatives discovered the body of her daughter, near a trench at Sixth Field Barnwell North.
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