“SELFISH AND BARBARIC” are two words which can be used to describe Leon Jordan of Anna Catherina, West Coast, Demerara (WCD), who was on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, sentenced to serve the next 62 years in prison for raping two underage girls and a woman. The sentence was handed down by Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Demerara High Court.

A few weeks ago, Jordan had opted to plead guilty to the three charges saying, “Is better to talk the truth before you regret not talking the truth.”

Particulars of the first charge state that on February 2, 2012, in the county of Demerara, Jordan engaged in sexual penetration of a child under the age of 16. The child was seven years old, and Jordan was 15.

Jordan is said to be known to the victim and her family. On the day in question while on his bicycle, he rode up to the little girl while she was on her way home from school and said that her mother sent him to buy chicken and he would take her home when he is finished.
He then grabbed the child and forced her onto his bicycle and whispered to her “If you scream I will juk you with a knife.” He then pulled her into a bushy area and raped her, while placing the knife to her neck.

Jordan left the child under a bus shed, and she made her way home and collapsed. The child was bleeding and told her mother that Jordan had raped her.

The second charge states that on January 13, 2013, in the county of Demerara, Jordan engaged in sexual penetration of a child aged 14 years. He was 16 at that time.
The third offence was committed on October 25, 2016; when Jordon, then 19 years old, engaged in sexual penetration with a woman without consent.

On the day in question Jordan accosted the woman, dragged her into a bushy area and forced himself on her.  The woman put up a fight, and Jordon bit off one of her eyelids and then spat into onto the ground. With blood gushing from the woman’s eye, the defendant raped her and made good his escape.

The victim was hospitalised for several days and had to had to undergo several rounds of corrective surgery to save her eyesight.

In court, the victim giver her impact statement and faced Jordan saying, “I screamed that day for help and no one came to my rescue but God. I saw death as I felt myself walking into my death. As I said the Lord’s Prayer I heard the defendant say to shut up.”
“I’m not a formality and my voice will not be muzzled,” the woman said as she looked at

Jordan; while he sat expressionless in the prisoner docks. The victim explained that Jordon raped her six months after she was married and the ordeal has left her ‘numb’.

Probation officer, Zola Cameron, told the court that the defendant’s mother describes him as a “good boy” however, his only bad habit is associating with drug users. The probation officer explained that Jordan attends the psychiatric clinic and describes him as ” selfish and barbaric.” since he expressed no remorse for his actions.
“I don’t know if you have any feelings. You are less of a human being which you ought to be,” the Judge told Jordan.

Justice Reynolds sentenced Jordon to 12 years for raping the 7-year-old girl; 15 years for raping the 14-year-old girl and 35 years for raping the woman, these sentences will run consecutively. He will have to spend 62 years behind bars, with the possibility of parole after serving 30 years.