A man who was sentenced to 20 years’in prison after he admitted that he raped a four-year-old girl in 2016, has approached the Court of Appeal in order to challenge the severity of his sentence.

In 2019, Gregory Ramkissoon called ’Skeage’, had admitted that on January 4, 2016, in the County of Demerara, he engaged in sexual activity with the child.

He was sentenced by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall, at the High Court, to 20 years with the possibility of parole after serving 15 years.

He is also serving a sentence for indecent assault and sexual assault committed on the same victim.

Through his attorney, Ramkissoon has filed an appeal at the Appeal Court located in Kingston, Georgetown. In his appeal, Ramkissoon is claiming that the judge did not take into account his early guilty plea, thus imposing a severe sentence on him.

He also claimed that Justice Morris-Ramlall failed to explore the possibility of a probation report and did not take mitigating factors into consideration before imposing the sentence.