Farmer allegedly lures girl with porridge to rape herYesterday, a 59-year-old farmer was brought before a city magistrate charged with the offence of sexual penetration of a girl who is below the age of 16.

Apr 12, 2019 News

Clarence Marques, a farmer of Port Kaituma was not required to plead to the indictable charge, which stated that during the month of March 2018, at Port Kaituma, North West District, he engaged in sexual penetration of a child under the age of sixteen.
The defendant appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before the Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
The matter was heard in camera. Members of the public and media persons were asked to exit the courtroom. According to reports, the charge came one year after the child who is said to be nine-years-old spoke out about the incident.
The court Prosecutor made serious objections to bail being granted to Marques on the grounds of the serious nature of the allegation and the fact that the child trusted the defendant.
Marques was remanded to prison by the magistrate and instructed to return to court next month.
Reports indicate that on the day in question, the child’s mother sent her to collect something from Marques.
Marques reportedly offered the child a cup of porridge and while the porridge was cooling, he took her into a fowl pen and placed his finger in her vagina.
However, the child then went home but before she could have explained what had took place, her mother dealt her several lashes because she took too long to return home.
The child then ran away from home and went back to Marques’s house where she spent the night. Later in the evening, Marques allegedly placed the child on a bed and placed his penis in her vagina.
The following day the girl returned home and told her mother what had transpired. The matter was then reported, an investigation was carried out and Marques was arrested for the offence.

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