Denise Fawcett, 33, of Sheet Anchor, East Canje, a security guard at Berbice High School was remanded to prison whilst her juvenile child was placed in Police custody, pending a probation report, to ascertain the safety of the victim, to be presented at New Amsterdam Court, also in Berbice, tomorrow.

The indictable offence was allegedly committed at the home of the accused, where the victim had gone to spend time with his father.

Police Inspector Satrohan Dayaram, prosecuting, said, between January 1 and 31 last, Fawcett, a married woman, flogged the victim and forced him to perform oral sex with her son who preformed the unnatural sexual act on the former.

The Prosecutor said the sodomised boy confided in a teacher who initiated Police intervention.

Successfully opposing bail for Fawcett, Dayaram cited the nature and gravity of the crime and said she would ‘tamper’ with the victim if granted pre-trial liberty.

Barbara Davis, mother and grandmother, respectively, of the accused, informed the magistrate, who expressed concern over the victim’s safety, that the victim had previously been subjected to sodomy by a male relative while living in Georgetown.

The victim’s father, however, assured the Court that his son is safe elsewhere.