Youth gets 23 years jail for rape, assault of girl

Calvin Ramcharran

Calvin Ramcharran will be spending the next 23 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of raping a 20-year-old girl, whom he also viciously beat during the act.

The charges against Ramcharran, 23, stated that on July 22, 2012, at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, he engaged in sexual penetration of the young girl without her consent. Additionally, he was convicted of a charge that on the same day, during the rape, he assaulted the girl, so as to cause her actual bodily harm.

At the conclusion of Ramcharran’s trial at the High Court in Georgetown, the jury found him guilty of the charges by a majority