A 36-year-old man has been sen­tenced to 14 years in prison af­ter con­fess­ing to rob­bing and rap­ing his aunt.

The man, whose iden­ti­ty was with­held to pro­tect the vic­tim, re­ceived the sen­tence on Wednes­day af­ter plead­ing guilty to rape, griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault, and rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion be­fore High Court Judge Kathy-Ann Wa­ter­man-Latchoo.

The man was al­leged to have at­tacked his 54-year-old aunt on June 29, 2012, when he was 23 years old. He went to her home in West Trinidad to re­turn $100, which he had bor­rowed from her two weeks ear­li­er.

Af­ter he hand­ed over the cash, his aunt of­fered him a meal. The man made sev­er­al com­ments about her ap­pear­ance. She claimed when she was re­mov­ing the food from the mi­crowave, he grabbed her by her wrist. He then grabbed a pair of scis­sors from the kitchen counter, placed them by her neck and forced her to per­form oral sex on him be­fore rap­ing her.

She re­sist­ed and re­peat­ed­ly told him he was com­mit­ting “a sin” but her ef­forts did not de­ter him.

Be­fore leav­ing the house, the man took back the $100 and­dared her to re­port him to the po­lice.

She called the po­lice and was tak­en to a sta­tion be­fore be­ing med­ical­ly ex­am­ined. Her nephew was even­tu­al­ly ar­rest­ed and charged.

In de­cid­ing on the ap­pro­pri­ate sen­tence for the man, Jus­tice Wa­ter­man-Latchoo or­dered that he serve 14 years for rape and griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault and six years for rob­bery. She be­gan with high­er start­ing sen­tences but ap­plied a one-third dis­count based on his guilty pleas.

Jus­tice Wa­ter­man-Latchoo or­dered that the sen­tences run con­cur­rent­ly, mean­ing that he would be re­leased af­ter serv­ing the high­er sen­tence.

The man is ex­pect­ed to be re­leased in a lit­tle over 12 years, as the one year, eight months, and nine days he spent on re­mand be­fore he was able to ac­cess bail was de­duct­ed from his sen­tence.

As part of the sen­tence, Jus­tice Wa­ter­man-Latchoo or­dered that he re­port to his near­est po­lice sta­tion with­in sev­en days of his re­lease to reg­is­ter as a sex of­fend­er on the Na­tion­al Sex Of­fend­er Reg­is­ter.

She al­so or­dered that he re­port to the po­lice every three months for 12 years af­ter his re­lease.

The Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice was al­so or­dered to pub­lish his name and de­tails of his con­vic­tion on the pub­lic sex of­fend­er web­site with­in two weeks.

The Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) was rep­re­sent­ed by se­nior pros­e­cu­tor Dy­lan Mar­tin, who was as­sist­ed by Melis­sa Sookhan.