Man admits to assaulting boy, 7, during ‘play’

A man who admitted to assaulting a seven-year-old boy, during what he claimed was playing around, was on Wednesday ordered to pay $15,000 in compensation to the child’s family.

Colin Benn pleaded guilty to the charge that he assaulted the boy on January 13, at Croal and Cornhill streets, Georgetown.

Benn, in admitting his guilt, told a city court that he and the child had