St Catherine, Jamaica – A 72-year-old man acquired a 10-year jail sentence on Thursday after pleading responsible to a number of costs of rape and sexual touching involving youngsters. Justice Bertram Morrison handed down the sentence within the House Circuit Court docket.
The person was given 10 years for the rape costs and 5 years for sexual touching. Nonetheless, these sentences will run concurrently, that means he’ll serve a complete of 10 years behind bars. His title has additionally been advisable for inclusion on the Intercourse Offenders Registry.
He had entered his responsible plea final October within the St. Catherine Circuit Court docket.
The courtroom was instructed that in 2021, the aged man dedicated these offenses in opposition to three underage ladies who had been entrusted to his care. The crimes got here to gentle in February 2022 when one of many victims traveled to a different parish to go to a relative and disclosed her harrowing expertise.
A report was subsequently filed with the Linstead police, prompting an investigation by the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Little one Abuse (CISOCA). The person was then arrested and charged in reference to the incidents.
