A young man was yesterday morning sentenced by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow to three years and three months behind bars after taking responsibility for the crime of raping his 10-year-old cousin when he was 13 years old.
The now 18-year-old man, whose identity has to be withheld from publication in accordance with the law, had pleaded guilty when he appeared before the Sexual Offences Court earlier this month. His sentencing had, however, been deferred for a probation report.
He pleaded to charges of rape of a child under 16 years and accepting that back in August of 2015 he sexually assaulted the child on two separate occasions.
