A 31-year-old Barataria man was grant­ed bail in the sum of $100,000 by a Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trate, when he ap­peared in court charged with sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a mi­nor.

The ac­cused was charged with the of­fence when he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate In­dra Ramoo Haynes, in the Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trates’ Court, on Mon­day.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to Oc­to­ber 10, 2022.

The ac­cused was ar­rest­ed on Sep­tem­ber 9, 2022, fol­low­ing a re­port made to the po­lice about an al­leged sex­u­al en­counter he had with a fe­male mi­nor be­tween the pe­ri­od Oc­to­ber 5, 2021 and Oc­to­ber 16, 2021.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by W/Supt. Guy-Al­leyne, W/ASP Per­sad, ASP Seecha­ran and Sgts. Bish­op and Mo­hammed all of the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU).

The ac­cused was charged with the of­fence by WPC Stephens of the North­ern Di­vi­sion’s CPU on Sat­ur­day 10 Sep­tem­ber, 2022.