Child molester convicted of breach of trust

| 08/07/2021 | 21 Comments
Cayman News Service

(CNS): A 44-year-old man from George Town has been found guilty of touching a 12-year-old child’s genitalia while he was taking care of her and her younger sisters after school in November last year, as he was “almost caught red-handed”. The child’s uncle, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had collected the children from school and taken them to his small apartment, where he lived with his own family, as he had done on previous occasions to await their mother coming from work. But on this occasion, when his sister arrived to collect the children she found his bedroom door closed.

She knocked on the door but there was no answer, and so she opened the door and saw her 12-year-old daughter with her shorts and underwear pulled down and her brother grabbing towards the child. She was immediately angry and certain that he had sexually abused the little girl. The mother began punching her brother, though he denied any wrongdoing, claiming things were not what they seemed.

As the mother and her children left the apartment, she asked her daughter what happened. The child said that when she went to speak to her uncle, who was in his bedroom watching TV, about some missing school socks, he had pulled her onto the bed, closed the door and pulled off her clothes. She described him as being aggressive and said he had rubbed her vagina. She said she had tried hard to wriggle away using her feet and soon afterwards her mother had arrived.

The child told her mother about a previous occasion when she had gone into the bedroom to speak with her uncle some months before and he had also pulled her onto the bed and tried to take off her clothes, but that time she had managed to get away and had not told anyone about it.

The court heard that the child’s father had gone to the uncle’s apartment later that evening and punched him. The uncle then gave himself up to the police. At first he was charged with sexual assault but those charges were later changed to breach of trust by an act of a sexual nature. But he denied the charges in any event and stood trial by judge alone.

In short, he had claimed that the child had come into his room to borrow his phone because it had the TikTok app on it that her mother would not allow her to watch at home or on her own phone. As a result the uncle said he would sometimes let her use his but sometimes when he asked for the phone back she would, in a playful way, try to avoid handing it over. He said that when his sister walked in, the child had been running off with that phone and he had grabbed at her shorts to pull her back and as he did so, they came down.

As she delivered her verdict on Wednesday, Justice Cheryll Richards outlined a detailed ruling in which she weighed all of the evidence from the child, her mother, the defendant and the defendant’s teenage son. She said the matter really came down to the credibility of accounts given by the child and the uncle during the time they were alone in the bedroom, and in the end the judge believed the child.

Justice Richards said that for a number of reasons, the defendant’s “explanation appeared to be implausible… and contrived”. The judge said she was satisfied that the child was telling the truth, with time being the only area of inconsistency in all the various accounts she had given about what had happened. With the arrival of the girl’s mother, Justice Richards said that the defendant was “almost caught red-handed”.

The case was adjourned to allow various relevant reports to be completed before sentencing.


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  1. Anon. says:

    We grow up hearing never get into a stranger’s car, never go anywhere with someone you don’t know yet statistics have shown repeatedly that most sexual molesters are someone you know.

    Sexual molestation scars children for life. They will see sex as something perverse and dirty, as something it was not intended to be.

    I hope the sentence is not 9 or 18 months like that father got for molesting his daughter.

    When these animals are let off with a slap on the wrist, the court is telling that child that their life and their pain is worthless.

  2. Anonymous says:

    If that was my child he touched, I’d happily go to prison after I got done with that pos.

  3. Lo-Cal says:

    Lucky guy,

    If it was my brother he would be so fuxxxed up with wounds he would choose to leave the island.

    The fact that he was virtually caught red handed he should be given the same sentence as if he had actually raped her. Maybe the judge is just waiting for him to actually get his next victim.

    SMH

    • Anonymous says:

      You can’t be convicted for a crime you haven’t yet committed. I hear you but the law is the law. I do believe that the breach of trust charge is not just. He should have been charged to the fullest extent of the crime that he actually committed.

  4. Anonymous says:

    We all know the troubles that this entire family have suffered. I hope they can move on from this.

  5. Anonymous says:

    Where is the outrage folks!!! Far to often we push these matters under the carpet. As a community we have not addressed this issue at all, children have suffered needlessly. Its time to stop protecting predators.

    • Anonymous says:

      The people who should be outraged have used up all their rage on the gays. However, he can be offered prayer and forgiveness.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Prepare your children!! Tell them what adults try to get up to using their trust and the fact that they are too afraid to tattle on an adult.

    TELL THEM!!

    My sister was molested (stranger danger) when she was 15 but it was dealt with quietly. If I had been TOLD I may have known how to deal with it when it happened to me a year later! And again 2 years later. (I was 12 and didn’t tell anyone until I was an adult)

  7. Anonymous says:

    I feel for any child who goes through this and doesn’t have such loving parents to defend her or him. This sends a clear message to a lot of people who make excuses for family members and allow this kind of behavior to continue. STOP PRETENDING and LISTEN to your child!! But this guilty verdict of “Breach of Trust” is NOT justice for this child.

  8. Say it like it is. says:

    This is the tip pf the iceberg it happens all the time in Cayman, but as it’s almost always family members they get away with it as it’s not reported. This sex fiend needs a long jail sentence,particularly as he tried to lie his way out of it, otherwise this revolting behavior will continue.

  9. Anonymous says:

    “Breach of trust”?! That’s what he gets done for?! No wonder victims of abuse don’t want to come forward. Hoping the little girl gets all the support she needs.

  10. Anonymous says:

    Christian community? Where’s the outrage???

    • Anonymous says:

      wasn’t Mary around 14 when the God ‘blessed’ her? priests and pastors from all denominations like to do the same…there’s a pattern there somewhere.

    • Anonymous says:

      Yea, it wasn’t a homosexual act though, so there’s that.

      • Anonymous says:

        Ironic part is that the bible actually speaks against incest, but not against loving another human.

        • Anonymous says:

          If only these faux-christians practiced what the bible taught instead of their child-molesting preachers’ convenient (mis)interpretations of it.

          Humans would be far better off if spirituality was kept a private thing between man and whoever they choose as their sky-wizard (if they opt not to follow the convenient geographical assignment), and organized religion was wiped clean from the face of the earth.

          We only need to watch as the priests burn their own churches in Canada in an attempt to hide the evidence of their crimes against humanity for hundreds of years; disgusting sub-humans.

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