Child rape case for High Court

Apr 04, 2018 News

The matter against Vishnu Persaud for the rape of a nine-year-old girl now goes to the High Court for trial.
Persaud, who allegedly sneaked into the child’s home on September 21 last, and raped her, underwent a Preliminary Inquiry before Magistrate Crystal Lambert at the Magistrate Court in Vreed-en-Hoop.
The Magistrate ruled that sufficient evidence had been established against the accused for him to stand trial before a judge and jury at the High Court.
The 34 year-old minibus driver was placed on $100,000 bail after his initial appearance before Magistrate Annette Singh at the Wales Magistrate’s Court.
In February, he was charged with rape of a child under the age of 16 years before the matter was transferred to the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.
The man is said to have jumped over a verandah at the girl’s home when her parents were away and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her.
The child’s mother had related that the suspect went to the home on September 21, last, to meet with the child’s grandfather and noticed that the girl was home alone. He allegedly climbed onto the verandah, entered the home and raped the child.
“My brothers and him does drive bus together and when they get problems, he does complain to my father.
So on that day, one of my brothers and him got into an argument and he told my brother that he will ‘f*** up his family and he left the Number 32 Bus Park,” the child’s mother alleged.
The woman added that her daughter was sick with the flu and diarrhoea and had stayed home from school with her grandfather. But the grandfather had to leave home to run an errand.
“My daughter said she heard the guy calling and when she went out, he asked her where her grandfather was and my daughter informed him that he was not at home, so he asked she who was at home, and my daughter said she alone…then she went in back the house and continued watching television,” the mother recounted.
She added that her daughter told her that shortly after she went inside, the man confronted her from the verandah and threatened to kill her if she made any noise.
“She said that the man took off her clothes and raped her on the chair and when the pain became too much, she started crying and he put his hands over her mouth, but she managed to bite him and push him off and run and lock herself in the toilet.”
The mother said that her daughter later spotted her attacker at a bus park, and he was wearing the same attire that he was dressed in when the attack occurred.
The child’s relative apprehended the suspect and took him to the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station where he was released on $100,000 bail after two days.

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