Stressing that she had “certain obligations”, Magistrate Manila Renee remanded a young man accused of engaging in sex with a 12-year-old girl.
“I have certain obligations and the law requires me to look at this serious,” she said in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court as she dealt with 21-year-old Shelton DeWayne Milton Blackman, of Denton Road, Grazettes, St Michael.
He was not required to plead to having sexual intercourse with a girl, a minor, with the purported consent of that minor and that minor is under the age of 16, to wit, 12 years.
While noting that the accused had no previous convictions, prosecutor Constable Troy Tudor objected to his release, saying he was already on bail for an offence of serious bodily harm relating to an incident at the Barbados Community College.
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