PREVIOUSLY convicted sex offender Esan Germaine, who is currently serving three concurrent prison sentences, is expected to know his fate today on three counts of child rape.

Germaine, a 45-year-old researcher, will be sentenced by Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Demerara Sexual Offences Court.

On February 3, 2022, Germaine was found guilty of three counts of rape committed on a 15-year-old girl between January 2014 and July 2014.

Attorney-at-law Clyde Forde is on record for Germaine, while the state’s case was presented by prosecutors Nafeeza Baig, Muntaz Ali, and Latifa Elliott.

In 2017, Germaine was convicted of three counts of rape committed on a girl. The recorded incidents occurred in 2011 when the child was four and continued in 2012 and 2013.

After a 12-member jury found him guilty at the Demerara High Court on all three counts, he was sentenced by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall to 15 years, 20 years, and 30 years, respectively.

However, the sentences will run concurrently, which means he will spend only 30 years in jail.

Germaine has since approached the Guyana Court of Appeal to challenge those convictions and sentences.