IVOR Laud who was sentenced in March to 25 years in prison for raping an eight-year-old girl and then repeating the act two years later, has moved to the Court of Appeal to challenge his conviction and sentence.

The 32-year-old man was sentenced by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Georgetown High Court after a 12-member jury found him guilty on two counts of raping a minor.

The first indictment stated that Laud, between March 1 and 31, 2015, engaged in sexual penetration with the victim when she was eight years old. According to the second indictment, the act was repeated between August 1 and 31, 2017, when the child was ten.

He was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment on the first charge, and 25 years on the second. Given that the sentences will run concurrently, he will only spend 25 years behind bars. Justice Barlow had also ordered that Laud undergo counselling for sex offenders while in prison.

Dissatisfied with his sentence, the convict, through his attorneys Paul and Charlene Fung-a-Fat, moved to the Appeal Court to have his conviction and sentence overturned or set aside. According to reports, Laud is known to the child’s family and during the periods mentioned in the charges, he would invite her to his home on the pretext that he had something for her.

Laud, who is a husband and father, would invite the child over when he was alone at home and take her into his bedroom where he performed oral and vaginal sex on her. After committing the heinous acts, he would send the child home. The child subsequently confided in her parents, and the matter was reported to the police. Laud was later arrested and charged.