Berbice stepfather remanded for rape of minor

Jul 22, 2016 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

An East Bank Berbice man who is accused of raping his stepdaughter has been charged with the offence and remanded to jail.

The 50-year-old Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice resident appeared yesterday before Magistrate Alex Moore in the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court on a charge of sexual activity with a child family member, under the Sexual Offences Act.
The man is accused of – between 1st June and 14th July 2016 at Edinburgh East Bank Berbice – engaging in sexual penetration with a child who was nine years old. He is also accused of knowing that when he committed the act he full well the child’s age.
He was not required to plead and was remanded to jail until August 28th.
Officials from the Childcare and Protection Services are still interviewing two other girls, aged five and seven.
The man’s reputed wife, who had 14 children, was charged earlier in the week with three counts of neglect of child when she appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore at the Sister’s Magistrates Court.
The charge states that she willfully contributed to the neglect of her children, aged five, seven and nine, being in need of protective intervention, omitting to do so, whereby causing harm to the said children.
The woman, who is a domestic worker, was placed on $50,000 bail on each count. She was remanded after failing to post bail.
She is scheduled to return to court on August 18.

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