Tag: sex crimes
Men deny child sex offences in 3 separate cases
(CNS): Three men who appeared in Grand Court on Friday accused of molesting young children in three separate and unrelated cases all denied the allegations and will now be tried later in the year. For legal reasons the men cannot be named at this stage, but each one is charged with offences that in some […]
Brac man charged with sex offence
(CNS): Police have arrested and charged a 34-year-old man from Cayman Brac with indecent assault on a juvenile, according to a brief release. The man was scheduled to appear in court Monday but no details of the allegations have yet been released. The RCIPS has not indicated the age or gender of victim or if […]
Man guilty of sexual crime on child at Smith Cove
(CNS): A judge found Valiyaveettil Josepeter (52) guilty of one charge of indecent assault and acquitted him on a second charge on Friday, following a judge-alone trial last month relating to an incident at Smith Cove in February involving two children, aged 7 and 10. Josepeter was accused of inappropriately touching the girls while they swam […]
Boss denies trying to rape employee
(CNS): A 49-year-old George Town man pleaded not guilty to attempted rape and indecent assault on Friday, after making his first appearance in the Grand Court in connection with allegations that he tried to rape one of his employees and sexually assaulted her. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly attacked the […]
LA votes to make ‘grooming’ an offence
(CNS): Amendments to the Cayman Islands Penal Code that government steered through the Legislative Assembly on Thursday will add a number of sexual offences to the law, in particular grooming, to aid the prosecution of this type of predatory threat to children and vulnerable people. The attorney general explained that the changes dealt with the […]
GT man charged with sexual offences
(CNS): A 49-year-old George Town man was expected in court Monday after he was charged with indecent assault and attempted rape. The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said the charges stem from an incident on 3 September, where he reportedly assaulted a woman known to him. No other details of the case were revealed in the […]
Lecturer jailed for 3½ yrs for child porn images
(CNS): Pierre Michel Pavlov Rameau (49), a former maths professor at University College of the Cayman Islands, has been jailed for three and a half years. However, the judge made it clear that were it not for the sentencing guidelines and principles relating to this particular crime, he would have liked to have doubled it, […]
Teenager faces sexual assault and robbery charges
(CNS): A 17-year-old boy from George Town has been charged with attempted rape, indecent assault, and robbery in connection to an attack on a tourist almost two years ago, when the accused was just 15 years old. The assault took place on South Church Street, George Town, on the night of Friday, 26 August 2016, […]
UCCI urges silent victims to come forward
(CNS): Following the conviction of maths professor Pavlov Rameau on multiple counts of possessing indecent images of children, his former employer, the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI), released a statement Friday announcing a zero tolerance policy toward sexual harassment and any other sexual impropriety. The college is also appealing to current and former students […]
Maths professor had tens of 1000s of child porn images
(CNS): Dr Pierre Michel Pavlov Rameau, a former lecturer at the University College of the Cayman Islands, was in possession of tens (possibly hundreds) of thousands of pornographic images when he was arrested last year, the court was told when he appeared at a sentencing hearing Thursday. The crown has charged the maths professor with […]
Father acquitted in historic sex-abuse case
(CNS): A 61-year-old George Town man who was accused by his teenage daughter of indecent assault on a single occasion when she was around ten years old was acquitted of the charges Friday, after a judge said he had some doubt about the evidence. The man, who is the father of several children and grandchildren, […]
