12-year-old allegedly,  ‘raped by Uncle Lloydie’
DR. PERSAUD, who found that a 12-year-old girl was sexually active resulting in the Community High School student admitting that she was raped by her cousin, Uncle Lloydie, about 5 times in 2008, is expected to testify on Monday. Defence Counsel Miss Sonia Parag, contending that the broken hymen found on the victim during examination by the doctor was not conclusive evidence that she was sexually assaulted, said she could have developed that condition by other means, such as a physical encounter.
As a consequence, presiding judge Winston Patterson directed that the prosecution, led by Ms. Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, in association with Miss Konyo Sandiford, should at least put the doctor up for cross-examination.
The prosecutor had stated her intention to close its case yesterday after calling five witnesses when the judge acceded to the defence’s request that the doctor’s clarification be sought.
The case, an unusual one, came about as a result of an anonymous report to the Probation Department , complaining about the existence of a young girl at Herstelling, who was being sexually molested by her 46-year-old cousin.
In her evidence before the court, the young girl related how her cousin and neighbour ‘Uncle Lloydie’ would invite her to his home, from March 2008, to clean his one-room house at Herstelling, East Bank, Demerara. He would give her $500 on each occasion, which she would used to pay bus fare to attend school in Georgetown.    
Under cross-examination by defence counsel Miss Parag, the victim said  “uncle Lloydie began one day in March, 2008, when he told me that he wished to have sex with me. Then he told me to take off my clothes and lay down on the bed.”
Asked how she felt, she did not answer.
The  victim denied a suggestion that the accused had never had sexual intercourse with her.
She also denied a suggestion that she was not interfered with in any way, but was cooperating with others in order to spite “Uncle Lloydie” with whom her relatives had a land dispute.
The hearing continues on Monday with the testimony of Dr. Persaud.