A 38-year-old man was de­nied bail when he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Aden Stroude at the Siparia Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day charged with sex­u­al as­sault. The ac­cused was charged with three of­fences – one count of sex­u­al touch­ing, one count of per­mit­ting a child to make child pornog­ra­phy, and one count of be­ing in pos­ses­sion and con­trol of child pornog­ra­phy.

Jim­my Lal­la of, Pe­nal, was ar­rest­ed af­ter a rel­a­tive of the mi­nor made a re­port to po­lice on Au­gust 18th 2019. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the vic­tim re­port­ed that some­time in Au­gust 2019 the ac­cused al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly touched her, en­cour­aged her to take a nude pho­to­graph with her cell phone, and send to the ac­cused via What­sApp.

WPC Small–May­nard, of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Child Pro­tec­tion Unit, con­duct­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter which re­sult­ed in the ar­rest and charge of LAL­LA on the Ju­ly 5th 2021. The ac­cused is ex­pect­ed to reap­pear at the Siparia Mag­is­trates’ Court on Fri­day 30th Ju­ly, 2021 to an­swer to the charges. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by W/Supt Ag. Claire Guy- Al­leyne, Ag In­sp. Knutt, Ag. Sgt. Tay­lor and Ag. Cpl Cal­len­der of the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit.