Pensioner charged with child molestation
A pensioner was yesterday charged in a city court with engaging in sexual activity with an underage girl.
It is alleged that Reuben France, 66, on February 15th, 2019 at Supply, East Bank Demerara, engaged in sexual activity with a child under the age of 16-years-old.
The charge was read to France, a handyman, by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan during an in-camera hearing.
France was allegedly doing work in the yard moments before he committed the act. It was reported to police that the child was playing in the yard and he took a seat on a chair, then called the girl and placed her on his lap. It was then that he allegedly began to fondle her private area.
After the assault, the child told her grandmother, who was at home at the time, what occurred. The grandmother immediately reported the assault to the Timehri Police Station and the man was arrested.
France was granted $75,000 bail yesterday and was told that the conditions for bail were that he stays 50 feet away from the family and makes no contact with them in any way. He is also required to report to the Timehri Police Station every
Vishnu Sookdeo, a homeless man who claimed he broke the window of an ambulance to get back at the government, was yesterday sentenced to nine months in jail.
Sookdeo, was arraigned before Magistrate Dylon Bess at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he pleaded guilty to a damage to property charge.
The charge states that on November 12th, at Brickdam and Cornhill Street, Georgetown, Sookdeo damaged a window of a motor vehicle that is the property of the 33,
Monday until the completion of the preliminary inquiry into the charge.
Ministry of Public Health.
According to Police Prosecutor Christopher Morris, the vehicle, which is an ambulance belonging to the ministry, was parked at the junction when Sookdeo ran up to it from behind with a piece of wood, which he used to lash the left side window and break it. He then ran away. The attack was reported and he was later apprehended by police.
After listening to the prosecutor, Sookdeo, who said he was homeless, told the court that he committed the act as a way to get back at the government. He was later sentenced to nine months in jail by Magistrate Bess, who told him that by damaging the vehicle he would not be getting back at the government as he wished to.