A 27-year-old man charged with two counts of wil­ful as­sault against a child was grant­ed $250,000 bail when he ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mag­is­trate Cheron Raphael at the San­gre Grande Mag­is­trates’ Court last Fri­day. The ac­cused is ex­pect­ed to reap­pear at the San­gre Grande Mag­is­trates’ Court on De­cem­ber 10th.

Ac­cordibg to po­lice re­ports, on No­vem­ber, a woman and a man had an ar­gu­ment and some­time af­ter the man al­leged­ly took the child to an event. When the child was lat­er re­turned, the woman told po­lice that she ob­served marks on the child’s chest and back. Burn marks were al­so seen around the child’s neck.

WPC La For­tune of the East­ern Di­vi­sion, Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU), con­duct­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter which re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of the ac­cused on No­vem­ber 16th, who was sub­se­quent­ly charged on No­vem­ber 18th, 2021 with the of­fences. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by W/Supt (Ag.) Claire GuyAl­leyne, ASP Roberts and Sgt. Bap­tiste of the CPU.