A To­ba­go man, 41, was charged with one count of Ex­pos­ing a Child to Pornog­ra­phy and en­gag­ing in Sex­u­al Ac­tiv­i­ty in the Pres­ence of an eight-year-old boy. He was grant­ed bail and is ex­pect­ed to reap­pear be­fore the court on De­cem­ber 9th, 2022 to an­swer the charges. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease...

To­ba­go Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU) De­tec­tives have charged a 41-year-old man with one count of Ex­pos­ing a Child to Pornog­ra­phy and en­gag­ing in Sex­u­al Ac­tiv­i­ty in the Pres­ence of an eight-year-old boy.

The ac­cused was in­struct­ed to stay away from the boy’s school and res­i­dence as well as to re­port to his lo­cal po­lice sta­tion thrice per week as part of his bail con­di­tions set at $100,000 with a sure­ty.

He was grant­ed bail by a Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trate on No­vem­ber 11th and will reap­pear be­fore the court on De­cem­ber 9th, 2022 to an­swer the charges.

The charges were laid on No­vem­ber 10th by PC Thomas of the To­bagoCPU fol­low­ing a June 2022 po­lice re­port in which a woman told po­lice of the in­ci­dent.

Ac­cord­ing to the boy’s moth­er, the child said that on a day un­known be­tween De­cem­ber 31st 2019 and Jan­u­ary 1st 2021, the ac­cused mas­tur­bat­ed in the pres­ence of the child while watch­ing porno­graph­ic ma­te­r­i­al on a tele­vi­sion.

A sub­se­quent in­ves­ti­ga­tion su­per­vised by Su­per­in­ten­dent Claire GuyAl­lyene, As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent (Ag.) Seep­er­sad and In­sp Miller of the CPU re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of the man.