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Be it in the \u2018OECS\u2019 or CARICOM,\u2019<\/strong> none may impute ulterior motive for adverse decisions delivered by the well-learned and esteemed Justices of regional \u2018Appellate Jurisdictions.<\/strong>\u2019 None may also question their independence, impartiality and professional integrity. In their judicial capacity, collectively, many have delivered \u2018Decisions\u2019<\/strong> that have not only caused conscientious \u2018Judicial Officers\u2019<\/strong> to dissent, but also to provoke public consternation. Thus, when their \u2018reasoning and rationality\u2019<\/strong> come under public scrutiny, then \u2018Justices\u2019 shall know they<\/strong> run the risk in causing regional people to perceive \u2018Judicial Institutions\u2019<\/strong> and \u2018Appellate Bodies\u2019 <\/strong>of being in want of integrity.<\/p>\n

ATTACKED AND RAVISHED<\/strong><\/p>

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In spite of \u2018Early Childhood Teachings,\u2019<\/strong> though not necessarily supportive of certain sexual acts, enactments have allowed for \u2018Judicial Interpretations\u2019<\/strong> by adjudicators that may opined that non-consensual \u2018Anus\u2019 <\/strong>sexual intercourse, is both \u2018Rape\u2019 (per vaginam) <\/strong>and Buggery\u2019 (per anus).<\/strong> \u00a0Given these facts, none may deny that there are those that believe the \u2018Anuses of men and women, and boys and girls,<\/strong>\u2019 shall be put to use for sexual gratification. Not infrequently, the vulnerable are sexually exploited, while the unsuspecting, are viciously \u2018Attacked and Ravished.\u2019<\/strong> Nations not only owe to victims, safety and security, but also protection of law.<\/p>

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PERSPECTIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Given such view, it would seem that half the judicial problems facing modern society, appear to have been the irrational and objectionable way, some interpretations have been made, and decisions that had given people reasons to express public dissent. This commentary looks at a recent reported ruling delivered by a clearly misdirected or misguided \u2018Judges\u2019 <\/strong>sitting on the \u2018Trinidad and Tobago-based \u2018Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).\u2019 <\/strong>It also looks at the \u2018Sexual Offences Act\u2019 <\/strong>as it relates to the offences \u2018Rape and Buggery\u2019 [Antigua & Barbuda: No. 9 of 1995:<\/strong> and Barbados: Chapter 154].<\/strong><\/p>

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MALE RAPE -JUDICIAL HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u2018Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ),\u2019<\/strong> the \u2018Apex Court\u2019<\/strong> for the republics of: (i) \u2018\u2026Barbados: (ii) \u2026Belize: (iii) \u2026Commonwealth of Dominica: and (iv) \u2026Guyana,\u2019<\/strong> looked at abuses to the \u2018Anuses\u2019<\/strong> of males and females\u2019 and recently ruled that \u2018Criminal law enforcers may charge a male person with raping another male person.\u2019 The very charge of \u2018Rape,\u2019<\/strong> has been the creation of \u2018Judicial History.\u2019 <\/strong>This had occurred, when apparently provisions contained in the \u2018Sexual Offences Act (SOA)\u2019 [Republic of Barbados]<\/strong> may have been overlooked or ignored.<\/p>

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ACCUSED – STEPHEN ALLEYNE<\/strong><\/p>

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When a Barbadian \u2018Commissioner of Police,\u2019<\/strong> seemingly belatedly, decided to test its legality, \u2018Stephen Alleyne\u2019<\/strong> appeared to have been its first accused to be prosecuted. The consciousness of the region\u2019s people was aroused, discussions were generated and wide media coverage was given to this development, particularly in the region\u2019s newspapers and news portals, <\/strong>and in others beyond these borders. However, it was not until the \u20187-panel Judges on the \u2018CCJ,\u2019<\/strong> delivered the \u2018November 2021 Judgement\u2019<\/strong> that the region seemed to have become of the \u2018Appellate Decision\u2019 <\/strong>that many people became aware [February 1, 2022].\u2019<\/p>\n

NO CONCERNS<\/strong><\/p>\n

That which shall now be given clearly to understand, is that \u2018Appellate Courts\u2019<\/strong> do not conduct \u2018Criminal Trials,\u2019<\/strong> nor hold \u2018Committal Proceedings.\u2019 Invariably, they are called upon to visit suspect decisions delivered by inferior Courts. This is particularly the case when it has been perceived to border \u2018Travesties or Miscarriages of Justice.\u2019 <\/strong>In the instant \u2018Stephen Alleyne Rape Case,\u2019 <\/strong>that which the respected \u2018Justice Peter Jamadar\u2019<\/strong> referred, appeared not to have been the concerns or issue of the \u2018Commissioner of Police.\u2019 <\/strong>The issue, therefore, had no direct bearing on the definition of \u2018Rape\u2019 <\/strong>as contained in the \u2018Sexual Offences Act\u2019 [Barbados].<\/strong><\/p>\n

EFFEMINATE MALES<\/strong><\/p>\n

With clarity of purpose and for commonality of understanding, Parliament provided the \u2018Definition for Buggery.\u2019<\/strong> It states \u2018\u2026In this Section buggery means sexual intercourse \u2018Per Anum\u2019 by a male person with a male person, or by a male person upon a female person\u2019<\/strong> [SOA: Section 12 (1) & (2): A&B].<\/strong> Given such \u2018Definition,\u2019 men and women of superior intellect shall not be confused with that which is universally known as \u2018RAPE.\u2019 <\/strong>Even so, trending in some societies, the \u2018Effeminate Males\u2019<\/strong> consider such part of the human anatomy to be a \u2018Vagina\u2019 <\/strong>Those so \u2018sexually-preference,\u2019 were said to have found male insertions, pleasurably gratifying.<\/p>\n

LEGAL FICTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Given the statutory definition, such may have been called a \u2018Legal Fiction.\u2019 <\/strong>When the accused\u2019s \u2018Penis\u2019<\/strong> penetrated, with deliberateness the \u2018Anus\u2019<\/strong> of the aggrieved male person, he had not only committed \u2018an abominable Sin,\u2019 but also; (i) \u2018\u2026A prosecutable; and (ii) \u2026Punishable sexual criminal act of \u2018Rape.\u2019<\/strong> Given the serious nature of the allegation and particularly the charge of \u2018Rape,\u2019 interpretative confusion appeared to have rattled the \u2018Magistracy.\u2019<\/strong> Such may also have affected the esteemed Judges on the \u2018Barbados Court of Appeal.\u2019 <\/strong>In its \u2018Appellate Jurisdiction,\u2019 and seemingly with harbored doubtfulness, one of the distinguished \u2018CCJ Appellate Justices\u2019 <\/strong>[His Honour, Justice Andrew Burgess], saw the overwhelming majority prevailed with their conclusions. They succeeded on a statutory-provided \u2018Legal Fiction.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

EIGHTEEN- SIX (18 (6)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This vividly reminds of the controversial and \u2018Fictionalized Definition\u2019<\/strong> of \u2018Spouse.\u2019 <\/strong>Instructively, Parliamentarians, ignorant of the term \u2018Legal Fiction,\u2019<\/strong> appeared to have been caught off-guard. Parliamentary history recorded the offending insertion was \u2018Section 18 (6),\u2019<\/strong> nationally popularized \u201818 (6)\u2019 [Antigua & Barbuda].<\/strong> Though not necessarily for the reasons then perceived by the citizenry, the law considers two persons of the \u2018Same Sex,\u2019<\/strong> and living together in the same household, \u2018Spouses to each other.\u2019 <\/strong>Chuckles and choking laughter rippled through the \u2018Legislative Chambers,\u2019 <\/strong>thereby bringing the parliamentary proceedings to a temporary, but rowdy and noisy halt. Incidentally, Prime Minister Keith Rowley\u2019 was not in the \u2018Public Gallery.\u2019<\/p>\n

CONVENTIONAL DEFINITION <\/strong><\/p>\n

From time immemorial, conventionally, universally, the judicially-accepted definition of \u2018RAPE,\u2019<\/strong> has been known to \u2018Judges and Judicial Institutions\u2019<\/strong> as; \u2018\u2026A male person commits the offence of \u2018RAPE\u2019 when he has sexual intercourse with a female person who is not his wife<\/strong>, either; (i)<\/strong> \u2018\u2026Without her consent, with recklessness; or (ii)<\/strong> \u2026With consent, but; (a)<\/strong> \u2018\u2026Extorted by threats or fear of bodily harm; (b)<\/strong> \u2026Impersonation (husband\/fianc\u00e9): (c)<\/strong> or \u2026False and fraudulent representations. Statutorily, the penalty is \u2018Life Imprisonment\u2019 [A&B: SOA: No. 9 of 1995: Section 3 (1): Sub-section (2)].<\/strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

JUDICIAL NOTICE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Given this definition, and in spite of that contained in the \u2018Sexual Offences Act\u2019<\/strong> as \u2018Rape\u2019<\/strong> [Republic of Barbados], likened to (i) \u2018\u2026The Committal Magistrate: (ii) \u2026The three-panel Judges on the Barbados Court of Appeal: and (iii) \u2026Apex Appellate Court Judge, Justice Andrew Burgess,\u2019<\/strong> the \u2018Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)\u2019<\/strong> may have taken \u2018Judicial Notice,\u2019<\/strong> thereby making clear distinction that: (a) \u2018\u2026Penile vaginal penetration,\u2019<\/strong> constitutes \u2018Rape:\u2019<\/strong> and (b) \u2026Penis in Anus\u2019 constitutes that of \u2018Buggery.\u2019 <\/strong>This may have caused the \u2018Appellate Justices\u2019 that they were neither conceived, nor were given birth through the \u2019Anus.\u2019<\/strong> Taking such \u2018Notice\u2019<\/strong> has been a well-considered and accepted \u2018British Commonwealth Judicial Principle.<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n

CASES ON POINT<\/strong><\/p>\n

As far as has been known, every jurisdiction within this organization, practices such principle. Thus, \u2018Rape\u2019 was well-known as a male \u2018Ravishing a Female\u2019s Vagina.\u2019 <\/strong>Evidentially, among the elements to prove is the non-consensual insertion of the male penis into the vagina of a female.\u2019 Research has shown several \u2018Cases on Point;\u2019<\/strong> (i)<\/strong> \u2018…Where a woman was ravished whilst in a state of complete intoxication, it was held to be rape\u2019 [1845: R v Camplin]. (ii)<\/strong> \u2026It was held to be rape, ravishing a woman whilst she is asleep\u2019<\/strong> [1872: R v Mayers: 12 Cox: CC: 311]. <\/strong>That which invariably surfaced are accusations made against some professionals. This Case makes perfect reference; (iii)<\/strong> \u2018\u2026The girl submitted to sexual intercourse under the belief that the accused was treating her medically and performing a surgical procedure.\u2019 The Court held that \u2018Consent\u2019<\/strong> obtained by fraud, is no defence\u2019 [1877: R v Flattery: 2 QBD: 410]: (iv)<\/strong> \u2026The widely reported Case of comedian \u2018Bill Cosby,\u2019 <\/strong>also makes the point. However, likened to fate, as fortune sometimes has it, his conviction was overturned [NBC: June, 30, 2021];<\/strong><\/p>\n

CITIES OF BUGGERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biblically, this had been the order of the day in the ancient cities of \u2018Sodom and Gomorrah.\u2019<\/strong> Christians are edified that the rampancy of such behavior saw \u2018God\u2019s Destructive Wrath\u2019<\/strong> descended upon the \u2018Cities of Buggery\u2019 [Genesis: 19-24].\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0Thus, as progressive and revolutionize as some may wish society to be, \u2018Judicial officers\u2019<\/strong> shall know that the criminal act of \u2018Rape\u2019<\/strong> can only be committed by a male person using the reproductive organ in a non-consenting female by inserting his \u2018Penis\u2019 <\/strong>into the \u2018Vagina.\u2019 <\/strong>The \u2018CCJ\u2019s Appellate Court\u2019<\/strong> ruling, has now provoked the thought-provoking question; \u2018\u2026What male\/female Law enforcer, Magistrate, Judge; Juror, practicing attorney, their grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, wives, daughters, nieces and sons<\/strong> shall consider their Anuses as Vaginas?\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

EFFEMINATE MALES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conscious of biblical teachings, Legislators in many nations, including \u2018Antigua and Barbuda\u2019 <\/strong>and the new \u2018Republic of Barbados,\u2019 <\/strong>have enacted laws that are criminally prohibitive of acts of \u2018Rape and Buggery.\u2019<\/strong> Today, \u2018Judicial officers\u2019<\/strong> of superior intellect, and interpreting these laws, appear to have found themselves in \u2018Mixed-up Moods.\u2019<\/strong> Even with the statutory provision, moralists have considered it illogical and nonsensical as today, \u2018Buggery\u2019 <\/strong>has been established by law as \u2018Rape of the Anus.\u2019<\/strong> Likened to this commentary, there might very well be something in the \u2018Holy Scriptures\u2019<\/strong> worthwhile reading [Leviticus: 20: 13].<\/strong><\/p>\n

DECISIONALL\/PROSECUTORALLY OPTIONAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guided by provisions contained in the \u2018Sexual Offences Act\u2019 [Barbados],<\/strong> the \u2018Appellant Commissioner of Police\u2019 <\/strong>held firmly, the view that even as the \u2018Act\u2019<\/strong> provides for the offences of: (a) \u2018\u2026Rape; and (b) \u2026Buggery,\u2019 <\/strong>the Sections were \u2018Decisionally and Prosecutorally Optional.\u2019 <\/strong>This the august \u2018CCJ Appellate Body\u2019<\/strong> that visited upon the \u2018Magisterial Decision,\u2019<\/strong> so determined. In its interpretative exercise as to whether or not a \u2018Male person accused of sodomizing the \u2018Anus\u2019 of another male person\u2019 <\/strong>can be charged with the offence of \u2018Rape.\u2019 <\/strong>Incidentally, the \u2018Sexual Offences Act,\u2019<\/strong> so provides [Chapter 154: Section 3 (1)].<\/strong><\/p>\n

RAVISISHING THE ANUS<\/strong><\/p>\n

That which seemed to have given the \u2018Committal Magistrate\u2019<\/strong> and the \u20183-panel Justices\u2019<\/strong> on the \u2018Barbados Court of Appeal\u2019 \u2018Interpretative Jitters,\u2019<\/strong> has been the \u2018Penis of Stephen Alleyne.\u2019 <\/strong>Accused of sexually \u2018Ravishing the Anus\u2019<\/strong> of another male, he was arrested and charged with \u2018Rape. \u2018The esteemed \u2018Justice Andrew Burgess\u2019<\/strong> knew that has to be the involvement of \u2018Penis and Vagina.\u2019<\/strong> He knew that the sexual act that constitutes the offence \u2018Buggery,\u2019<\/strong> no matter how fictionized or sensationalized, it shall never be called \u2018Rape.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

RAPING MAD<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the \u2018Appellate Court\u2019 [CCJ], <\/strong>may have been seen as having \u2018Gone Raping Mad,\u2019 <\/strong>the \u2018Actual Culprits\u2019<\/strong> have been the \u2018Legislative arm of Government.\u2019 <\/strong>The \u2018Rape and Buggery\u2019<\/strong> offences contained in the enactment not only appear \u2018Bad for Duplicity,<\/strong>\u2019 but also has potential for \u2018Interpretative Stupidity.\u2019 <\/strong>When male accused \u2018Stephen Alleyne\u2019 <\/strong>seemed to have escaped the appropriate charge of \u2018Buggery of another male, he was instead slapped with \u2018Rape.\u2019<\/strong> Neither the \u2018Committal Magistrate,\u2019<\/strong> nor the \u2018Barbados Court of Appeal\u2019<\/strong> appeared to have been amused. Thus, confusion reigned over the instituted \u2018Rape Charge.\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

MINDBOGGLING MODE<\/strong><\/p>\n

To, all intents and purposes, the legislators, in \u2018Mindboggling Mode,\u2019<\/strong> seem to have misinformed themselves with an apparent ill-conceived definition of \u2018Rape.\u2019 <\/strong>They have decided that this offence is committed when; \u2018\u2026The penis of a person is inserted into the \u2018ANUS or MOUTH\u2019 of another person.\u2019 <\/strong>In most jurisdictions this constitutes \u2018Rape.\u2019 <\/strong>Since females were not biologically equipped with such organ, this could only be performed on both males and females by a male person. Instructively, the \u2018Sexual Offences Act\u2019 [Barbados] <\/strong>provides that a male person having non-consensual \u2018Anal sexual intercourse\u2019 (per anus),<\/strong> with another male, constitutes the offence – \u2018RAPE\u2019 [Barbados: SOA: Chapter 154: Sections 3 (1) & (6)]. <\/strong><\/p>\n

FEMALE RAPE CLAUSE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then ensuring that those not born with penises, they inserted a \u2018Female Rape Clause.\u2019 <\/strong>This \u2018Clause\u2019<\/strong> speaks to the inclusion of; \u2018\u2026An object, not being part of the human body, manipulated by a person into the vagina or anus of another person\u2019 [SOA: Chapter 154: Sections 3 (1) & (6)].\u2019<\/strong> Consequent upon this provision, obtained u \u2018Barbadian Law,\u2019<\/strong> popular radio \u2018Talk Show\u2019<\/strong> caller [Browne& Browne],<\/strong> \u2018Dame Sherese\u2019<\/strong> may further feel emboldened by that which is contained in that nation\u2019s \u2018Sexual Offences Act.\u2019<\/strong> Thus, he shall be informed that no \u2018Male or Female or \u2018Shemale\u2019<\/strong> shall insert any \u2018organ or hand-held or strap-on objects\u2019<\/strong> in an orifice on his person without consent.<\/p>\n

MISCHIEF AIM BY PARLIAMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through the years the \u2018Judiciary\u2019<\/strong> has been functioning in the way \u2018Judges\u2019<\/strong> has seen necessary, if only to sustain the \u2018Rule of Law.\u2019 <\/strong>There are those \u2018Judicial Officers\u2019 that have often been perceived by regional people as displaying ambivalence and scant regard to \u2018Public Morality.\u2019 <\/strong>Their interpretation of the laws often indicates how regional jurisprudence has been evolving. From this perspective, there may be no need to question their judicial competence. Moreover, they shall know that their interpretative skills are key to discerning the \u2018Mischief Aim by Parliament.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

FICTIONALIZED DEFINITION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Resolute and harboring, subscribing and sharing no such view, and seemingly strengthened by his \u2018Intellect and Moral Integrity,\u2019<\/strong> the \u2018Dissenting Justice,\u2019<\/strong> reportedly divorced himself from any association and\/or concurrence with the outrageous, yet statutorily \u2018Fictionized Definition\u2019<\/strong> of \u2018Buggery.\u2019<\/strong> The manner in which the law was interpreted by \u20186\u2019 <\/strong>of the \u20187-panel Justices\u2019 <\/strong>and ruled, seemed more to have positioned to be referred to as \u2018Judicial Renegades.\u2019<\/strong> Fully satisfied and reliant upon his mental faculties to guide his thoughts way from drawing interpretative inferences.<\/p>\n

MISCHIEF AIM BY PARLIAMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within this jurisdiction, Legislators appeared cautiously careful, not to have tinkered with the \u2018Sexual Offences Act\u2019 [Antigua & Barbuda].<\/strong> Consternation invariably fills the mind, and some \u2018Judicial Decisions\u2019<\/strong> often deepens rift within the society, while \u2018Interpretative Confusion\u2019<\/strong> often bedeviled the \u2018Magistracy and Judiciary.\u2019 <\/strong>Invariably, referrals are made to \u2018Appellate and Apex Courts\u2019 <\/strong>for interpretative clarity on issues of law, particularly to ascertain the \u2018Mischief Aimed by Parliament.\u2019<\/strong> Theirs has always been the difficult task in interpreting enactments considered appropriate for \u2018social control,\u2019 curb societal lawlessness and behaviors that seem reek of recklessness. Yet there are those that frequently smart under \u2018Human Rights and International Treaties, Conventions and Commitments,\u2019 while critical issues are side-stepped. <\/strong><\/p>\n

RULE OF LAW<\/strong><\/p>\n

The trouble that some Respondents often experience has been accessing \u2018Appellate Bodies,\u2019<\/strong> that speak their language, understand societal culture and prohibitiveness of laws for social control and ultimately, the \u2018Rule of Law.\u2019 <\/strong>Those familiar with Law enforcement, criminal law and \u2018Criminal Justice System,\u2019<\/strong> and those administrating and dispensing justice, shall be considered reckless no to know that interpretation of any law,<\/strong> shall first ascertain the \u2018Parliamentary Mischief.\u2019<\/strong> This undoubtedly, shall help to guide clarity of understanding and informed \u2018Appellate Decisions\u2019<\/strong> before saying \u2018I Concur.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

I CONCUR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seemingly, half the trouble within the \u2018Judiciary\u2019<\/strong> today, is the assignment of \u2018Judges\u2019<\/strong> that often appear starved for commonality of understanding of society\u2019s core values. Thus, for numerical value, many seemed resigned to their role of saying, \u2018I Concur.<\/strong>\u2019 The situation is further compounded, when regional legislators \u2018Tinker with Legislation,\u2019<\/strong> be it from a \u2018Realistic Perspective\u2019 <\/strong>or Legalistic Fictions.\u2019<\/strong> This may have been the case of a male accused that allegedly \u2018Sodomized or Buggerized\u2019<\/strong> another male. Research has revealed that when \u2018Barbadian Legislators\u2019 <\/strong>enacted the \u2018Sexual Offences Act,\u2019<\/strong> the enactment correctly sectionized \u2018Rape and Buggery.\u2019<\/strong> As a \u2018Statutory Enactment,\u2019 <\/strong>it is \u2018Legally Right\u2019<\/strong> to define an act of \u2018Buggery\u2019 <\/strong>as \u2018Rape\u2019 [Barbados]. <\/strong>From society\u2019s standpoint, it has been seen as \u2018Morally Wrong.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

CONTRASTING\/CONCURRING VIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n

When in criminal proceedings adjudicators begin to raise concerns for; (a) \u2018\u2026Human Rights; and (b) \u2026States International Treaty Commitments,\u2019 <\/strong>there is every likelihood that the issues under judicial consideration might be side-stepped. In the \u2018Judgment Summary\u2019 [\u2018Caribbean Court of Justice],\u2019 these were observed; \u2018\u2026When Judges are interpreting legislation, they must also respect the fundamental rights in the Constitution and consider a \u2018States International Treaty Commitments; <\/strong>\u2026A gender-neutral interpretation of the Act respects the right to protection of law, regardless of sex and prohibition of discriminatory laws<\/strong> under the Constitution\u2019 [His Honour, Justice Peter Jamadar]. <\/strong><\/p>\n

DISMISSED RAPE COMPLAINT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prosecutorally, the Police Court Prosecutor\u2019 reportedly insisted in craving the Court\u2019s indulgence to proceed with the proceedings.\u2019 But an equally intolerant \u2018Magistrate’<\/strong> decidedly dismissed the \u2018Rape Complaint.\u2019<\/strong> The dismissal saw the referral to the \u2018Barbados Court of Appeal.\u2019<\/strong> The apparent startled Justices caused it to suffer similar fate. The nation\u2019s \u2018Apex Court- Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) <\/strong>then visited upon the \u2018Decisions\u2019 of the inferior Courts.<\/strong> The ruling, seemingly mindboggling, yet appeared not to have befuddled the minds of a; (i)<\/strong> \u2018\u2026The Respondent and his attorney: (ii)<\/strong> \u2026The Committal Magistrate; and (iii)<\/strong> \u2026The 3-panel Judge on the \u2018Barbados Appeals Court. <\/strong><\/p>\n

SEPARATE JUDGMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ironically, unfazed by fellow-Appellate Justices, one Judge on the \u2018Apex Court,\u2019 <\/strong>demonstrated that he was of sound memory and discretion and endowed with reason and conscience, appeared not to have been amused. Expressing no qualms about the uses \u2018God\u2019<\/strong> intended of the non-organ orifices on his body, <\/strong>in a \u2018Separate Judgment\u2019 <\/strong>and in unambiguous language, \u2018His Honour Justice Andrew Burgess\u2019<\/strong> gave clear indications that he had no intention to go to hell. He did not see that a male person inserting the penis into the \u2018Anus or Mouth\u2019<\/strong> of another male person constitutes \u2018Rape.\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

HIGH MORAL GROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harboring no such thoughts, expressing, subscribing, and concurring with no such view, he took the \u2018High Moral Ground.\u2019 <\/strong>Likened to attorneys for the \u2018Respondent Stephen Alleyne,\u2019 <\/strong>though in futility, he fought a \u2018Persuasive Battle.\u2019 <\/strong>Even the lone female Judge, \u2018Madame Justice Maureen Rajnauth,\u2019 \u2018Concurred\u2019<\/strong> that a male committing such sexual act as \u2018Buggery,\u2019 <\/strong>constitutes \u2018Rape.\u2019<\/strong> Standing on the side of \u2018Morality,\u2019 t<\/strong>he learned Justice respectfully dissented. \u00a0<\/strong>With retention of \u2018Rape and Buggery\u2019 [Barbados], <\/strong>there seems to exist an anomaly. Should a male\u2019s penis be non-consensually inserted into a female\u2019s; (a) \u2018\u2026Vagina; and (b) \u2026Anus,\u2019 <\/strong>it begs the fundamental question, \u2018Which of the offences will be applicable?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

RAVISHING INSTINCT <\/strong><\/p>\n

When the \u2018Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)\u2019<\/strong> ruled that a male person can be \u2018Charged with Rape\u2019<\/strong> by having \u2018Anal Intercourse\u2019 <\/strong>with another male person, the \u2018Monkeys\u2019<\/strong> at the \u2018Wildlife Reserve\u2019 <\/strong>[Farley Hill National Park: Barbados<\/strong>], may have been jumping from tree to tree and gaveling their \u2018bahind\u2019<\/strong> with their paws. They may also have been happy that the \u2018CCJ\u2019s Ruling\u2019<\/strong> also offered them protection from the \u2018Ravishing Instinct\u2019<\/strong> of their own species<\/p>\n

RAPING THE ANUS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inferentially, controversially, yet judicially, there are those \u2018Judges\u2019<\/strong> who believe that the \u2018Anus\u2019<\/strong> might be used for sexual pleasures. Such, however, is contingent only upon consent. This might be seen in a recent \u2018Appellate Decision,\u2019 <\/strong>delivered on a jurisdictional issue, pertinent to the abominable crime of \u2018Buggery,\u2019<\/strong> that at least for one jurisdiction, been judicially considered \u2018Rape.\u2019 <\/strong>Conversely, the same \u2018Judges\u2019<\/strong> may rule that a male can be charged with \u2018Raping the Anus,\u2019<\/strong> particularly where no consent was sought and obtained. Even so, such shall never be made without reference to the existence of related law [Barbados: CCJ: No. 2 of 2022: (AJ) BB].<\/strong><\/p>\n

CRIMINAL EVIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlike the recent thought-provoking ruling of the \u2018CCJ,\u2019 <\/strong>at \u2018Common Law,\u2019 Rape\u2019 <\/strong>has been defined as; \u2018\u2026The unlawful sexual intercourse with a female of any age without her consent and against her will, by force or putting in fear or fraud [Baker & Wilkie\u2019s: Criminal Law: Police Promotion Handbooks: Page 99].<\/strong> No Judge, however, intelligent or daft, may deny that which is contained in this definition. Those elevated from the \u2018Magistracy\u2019<\/strong> know that these are not only the elements necessary in establishing a \u2018Prima Facie Case,\u2019<\/strong> but also in a criminal trial, critical to the \u2018Prospect of Conviction.\u2019<\/strong> Law enforcement instructional training and teaching, investigative practice, have always guided the martialing of \u2018Criminal Evidence.<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n

RUDE AWAKENING<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Magistrate, seemingly unfamiliar with the definition contained in the \u2018Sexual Offences Act,\u2019<\/strong> reportedly dismissed the \u2018Complaint Without Oath.\u2019<\/strong> Then upon appellate proceedings the \u20183-member Barbados Court of Appeal\u2019 <\/strong>upheld the \u2018Magisterial Decision.\u2019 Then upon further appellate proceedings, the \u2018Barbados Court of Appeal\u2019<\/strong> was given a \u2018Rude Awakening\u2019<\/strong> by the \u20187-panel Justices of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).\u2019 <\/strong>They have not only disagreed with the decision of the Magistrate, but also ordered re-filing of the \u2018Criminal Complaint and \u2018Committal Proceedings.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

BUGGERY AND PENALTIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within the \u2018Antigua and Barbuda\u2019<\/strong> jurisdiction, Legislators appeared more sober-minded. In making a distinction with \u2018Normal and Abnormal Sexual Acts,\u2019<\/strong> they inserted a Clause that addresses the prohibited sex act of \u2018Buggery.\u2019<\/strong> The statutory enactment defines it as; \u2018\u2026A person who commits buggery is guilty of an offence, and is liable on conviction to \u2018Life Imprisonment.\u2019 <\/strong>The Legislators had given serious considerations; (a)<\/strong> \u2018\u2026Should buggery be committed upon a minor by an adult; (b)<\/strong> \u2026If committed by an adult upon another adult, \u2018Imprisonment of fifteen years;<\/strong> and (c)<\/strong> \u2026If committed by a minor, \u2018Imprisonment of five years\u2019 [SOA: No. 9 of 1995: Section 12].<\/strong><\/p>\n

INFERENCE OR INTERPRETATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among those of \u2018Judicial Eminence,\u2019<\/strong> \u2018Justice Burgess\u2019<\/strong> showed an ability to distinguish a \u2018Vagina\u2019<\/strong> from \u2018an Anus.\u2019<\/strong> Recognizing that the \u2018Penis and Vagina\u2019<\/strong> were not only to complement each other in multiplying and replenishing the earth, but also the only two reproductive organs known to humans. Instructively, he conscientiously decided \u2018Not to Concur\u2019<\/strong> with Justices who believed that when a penis was sexually inserted into the rectum, it was to be considered a \u2018Vagina.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

PENILE-VAGINAL PENETRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adamant that under \u2018Common Law\u2019<\/strong> and regional adaptation of \u2018British Jurisprudence,\u2019<\/strong> he insisted that \u2018\u2026Only a male person could commit rape.\u2019 <\/strong>Firm in his views, conviction and belief, he dictaed that such sexual act could only be perpetrated \u2018against a female\u2019<\/strong> by the unlawful insertion of a \u2018Male\u2019s Penis\u2019<\/strong> into a \u2018Female\u2019s Vagina.\u2019<\/strong> \u00a0<\/strong>His Lordship was not alone. This had been the \u2018Magisterial View,\u2019 <\/strong>as well as the \u2018Non-Legal Fiction View\u2019<\/strong> of the distinguished \u20183-Judge panel of Justices\u2019<\/strong> sitting on the \u2018Barbados Court of Appeal.\u2019 <\/strong>Reasonable inferences might still be drawn that his secular teachings and commonality of understanding of the average citizens, the core values of the \u2018Barbadian Society,\u2019 appeared to have caused him to stand firmly in his knowledge and belief that to constitute the criminal offence of \u2018RAPE,\u2019<\/strong> there \u2018SHALL\u2019<\/strong> be \u2018Penile-Vaginal Penetration\u2019<\/strong> [St. Vincent Times: February 1, 2022].<\/p>\n

CREATURE OF STATUTE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u2018Judiciary\u2019 is not alone with \u2018I Concur.\u2019<\/strong> Respecting tabled Bills,<\/strong> it has often been seen that inadequacy of familiarization of the contents and objects of particular \u2018Bills,\u2019<\/strong> that seen as rushed through, and passed within the \u2018Legislative Chambers,\u2019 <\/strong>in rather indecent haste. consternation. Few Legislators seemed to have been adequately prepared for the debate. Few knew when the Bills have contents that might be easily discerned as \u2018Legally Right\u2019 <\/strong>or \u2018Morally Wrong.\u2019 <\/strong>However, when the parliamentary debate is over, and the Bills put to the House\/Senate for the vote, overwhelmingly, the Speaker\/President\u2019 declares, \u2018The Ayes have it.<\/strong>\u2019 In democracies where there is no \u2018Parliamentary Opposition,\u2019 even by a \u2018Quorum,\u2019 <\/strong>legislative approval has always been a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n

PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSENTING SCRUTINY<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is instructive to note that both the \u2018Legislative body (Parliament<\/strong>) and \u2018Assenting authority\u2019<\/strong> (Governor General) will have seen the sexual criminal offence- \u2018Rape,\u2019<\/strong> being defined in the ambiguous way it may have been drafted. And while those that give \u2018Royal Assent\u2019 shall be meticulous in their scrutiny, more than half the time, they observe nothing. Most have not the slightest clue of that which they have signed into law. The \u2018Sexual Offences Act] [Barbados: Chapter 154], <\/strong>may just have been one such piece of legislation that may not have given sufficient \u2018Parliamentary and Assenting Scrutiny.\u2019<\/strong> They may have observed that a \u2018Male Penis\u2019 inserted into the waste discharge canal, for sexual pleasures, could never be called \u2018Rape.\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

CONCLUSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the statutory definition of \u2018Rape\u2019<\/strong> as contained in the \u2018Sexual Offences Act\u2019 [Barbados].<\/strong> The eminent \u20187-panel of Judges on the \u2018Trinidad and Tobago-headquartered \u2018Appellate Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ),\u2019<\/strong> comprises; (i) \u2018\u2026Honourable Justice Adrian Saunders, President: (ii) \u2026Justice Jacob Wit: (iii) \u2026Madame Justice Maureen Rajnauth: (iv) Justice Winston Anderson: (v) \u2026Justice Denys Barrow (author): (vi) \u2026Justice Andrew Burgess; and (vii) \u2026Justice Peter Ramadar.\u2019 <\/strong>When the \u2018Legal, Judicial and Appellate\u2019 <\/strong>history is written, posterity will learn of \u2018Justice Andrew Burgess.\u2019 <\/strong>He appeared to have used his wit, judicial wisdom and comparability of superior intellect in guiding his deliberations, conclusions and decisions. With independence of mind, yet in a collective approach, though \u2018Numerically Defeated,\u2019<\/strong> by clear that which may have persuasive and compelling, yet differing views and opinions of fellow-Appellate Judges, he remains undaunted, yet with a firm resolve and conviction in serving humanity in the best way, he can. ***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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