HIRE car driver Deochan Somar of Lot 23 ‘B’ Bloomfield Village, Corentyne was granted $100,000 bail after another charge of rape was read to him by Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Albion Court.
The defendant had previously faced two similar charges which were laid over by the police, however, charges on Case Jacket 1284/2011 had been quashed by an order of the court, discontinuing those charges.
At Tuesday’s hearing, an entirely new charge of rape of a girl under 16 years old, contrary to Section 10 of the Sexual Offences Act #7 of 2010, as amended by the Sexual Offences Act #2 of 2013, was read to the defendant. He was not required to plead to this charge.
The defendant is alleged to have engaged in sexual penetration of a child of the age of 14 years old on November 1, 2010. The victim, then a third form secondary school student, had joined the defendant’s motor car along with other students, who subsequently disembarked at their respective destinations. Thereafter, the teenager was allegedly taken aback of Nigg Village and sexually violated.
The matter is fixed for report on March 3.
(By Jeune Bailey Vankeric)
