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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Poultry worker found guilty of sexually assaulting 9-year-old girl

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Sascha Wilson
286 days ago
20241005

A poul­try work­er is ex­pect­ed to be sen­tenced on Oc­to­ber 30 for sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a nine-year-old girl when he was a teenag­er.

Jus­tice Kathy Ann Wa­ter­man-Latchoo on Thurs­day found the ac­cused guilty of two charges of griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault and one count of at­tempt­ed mur­der, fol­low­ing a judge-alone tri­al.

The ac­cused was 16 years old when he com­mit­ted the sex crimes and was re­lat­ed to the girl’s step­fa­ther. He plead­ed not guilty.

The pros­e­cu­tion’s ev­i­dence, led by State at­tor­neys Dy­lan Mar­tin and Niara Boodan, was that some­time dur­ing the pe­ri­od Ju­ly 31 and Sep­tem­ber 1, 2010, the lit­tle girl was show­er­ing in an out­door bath­room at her Cen­tral home.

The ac­cused walked in­to the bath­room with just a tow­el around his waist. The girl then took off the show­er and wrapped her­self with her tow­el, but as she stepped out, the ac­cused grabbed her hand and pulled her to­wards him. He then as­sault­ed her and told her not to tell any­one.

The oth­er of­fences took place on Sep­tem­ber 15, 2010. She was in the toi­let when he walked in and closed the door. He again sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed her and then at­tempt­ed to sodomise her.

The next day, the child con­fid­ed in the guid­ance coun­sel­lor at her school and po­lice of­fi­cers were con­tact­ed. Six days lat­er, the ac­cused was ar­rest­ed and charged with the of­fences. He tes­ti­fied at the tri­al in his de­fence but had de­nied all the al­le­ga­tions. —Sascha Wil­son


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