TAXI driver, Damon Assanah, called “Demon,” who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl back in 2015, has moved to the Appeal Court to have his conviction and sentence overturned. In June, Assanah, 33, was, sentenced by Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Sexual Offences Court of the Demerara High Court after a jury found him guilty of engaging in sexual penetration with the victim during the month of November 2015. However, he was found not guilty on two counts of rape committed on the child during the months of January and October 2015. In his appeal documents, the convict claimed that the trial judge erred in law. He is contending that the sentencing was excessive and too severe. As such, he is asking the court to reserve and/or set aside his conviction and sentence. According to reports, Assanah is known to the victim and her family. During the month of January 2015, he lured her out of her home and allegedly raped her near a “fowl-pen.” Some nine months later while returning home after being sent on an errand by her mother, Assanah grabbed the child and threw her into his motorcar. He took her to his home where he raped her. On December 7, 2015, while at school she began vomiting. Several tests later confirmed that she was seven weeks pregnant.
At that point, the teen told her mother what has transpired and a report was made to the police. Assanah was later arrested and charged.