MAGISTRATE Ann McLennan, on Wednesday December 18, 2019, remanded a 30-year-old taxi driver to prison for having sex with a child under the age of sixteen.

Sahodeo Pooram of Herstelling East Bank, Demerara, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was not required to plead to the indictable charge.

Particulars of the charge stated that, on September 27, 2019, at Herstelling East Bank, Demerara, he engaged in sexual penetration with a child of the age of twelve.
It is noted that Pooram picked up the child at Mocha road head took her to his Herstelling address and raped her.

Magistrate McLennan remanded Pooram to prison until December 30, 2019.