ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A prominent journalist is expected to make his first appearance in St John’s Magistrates’ Court today, after being slapped with a sexual assault charge for unlawful relations with a 13-year-old girl.
The media personality, who was granted station bail over the weekend in the amount of $10,000, is reported to have taken the child home from a function in a vehicle on June 12.
Allegations are that when the vehicle reached Gunthorpes the man, “touched the teenager inappropriately,” a police source said.
The incident was reported to police and the journalist was later taken into custody and charged.
Today’s proceeding is expected to see the formalisation of bail and a committal date set, which will determine if the matter will go to the High Court before a judge and jury for the indictable offence.
If found guilty, the media personality faces up to five years in prison.
“prominent journalist”? Really? There is nothing prominent about this man. I want to know why they aren’t naming him. I am sure this is NOT the first time he has done this. I guarantee if they were to name him, and circulated this story more victims would come forward. It is a sad case when you cannot trust your children with other so-called adults. What is this world coming to? If found guilty, he should be given more than 5 years. I guarantee you it will take longer than 5 years for this child to get over the trauma which she probably experienced throughout this ordeal.
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JD Really??? You sound like a fool!! Did you read the article?? When was it a crime to asked an ADULT to bring your child home? She is 13, and she is a VICTIM!!
It doesnt matter where the child was or what she was doing, she is still a child and should be treated as such.
This is a old hard tone gray bead man! So it would be okay for him to molest her??
The parent gave the concent to take her child home… it is not a crime. What he did to this CHILD was the CRIME here…Stop blaming everyone except the person who committed this crime….
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nameless – you miss my point totally and yet you are actually saying the same thing too. Why do you not see that? Of course she is a victim here and of course it’s not OK that she has been molested but this situation could have been avoided if she had been taken home by a ‘vetted’ person – I am not reading here that consent was given by her parents, unless you know more about this situation than we are seeing here. Things are never just ‘black or white’…
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Trust?
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Where were her parents? Why are they letting her get into a car alone with a grown man? Children need to be properly looked after.
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A La Peanut butter sandwich. How you guys keep falling like that. disappointed.
Presto, I’m out!
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