{"id":162484,"date":"2022-11-17T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=162484"},"modified":"2022-11-17T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:05:01","slug":"man-26-rapes-4-year-old-girl-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/man-26-rapes-4-year-old-girl-in-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 26, rapes 4-year-old girl in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 26-year-old man from this parish is in police custody, accused of sexually abusing a four-year-old neighbour. The accusations have left the families of both the accused and the child in shock and disbelief.<\/p>

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\u201cI don\u2019t believe that [he] did that. He is so innocent. He is so calm. He can\u2019t even mash ants, so I don\u2019t understand\u2026 But if he didn\u2019t do it, well, somebody else did it,\u201d the child\u2019s paternal aunt told the\u00a0Jamaica Observer<\/strong>\u00a0from the family home on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The accused lives across the road from the child and both families get on well. Allegations are that he molested her more than once.<\/p>

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The child\u2019s cousin said she was the one who raised the alarm.<\/p>

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\u201cWhile bathing her, she told me that her vagina scratches so I ask her what had happened and she said she didn\u2019t remember how many times, but a nuff time. So, I ask her why she don\u2019t tell her parents and she said that they will beat her because a nuff time har mother beat her for things when she tell her,\u201d relayed the cousin.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter she told me and I looked and stuff, she looked as if she was troubled for real. So, I told the mother that she has to look for herself,\u201d her cousin added.<\/p>

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The child was taken to the hospital for a medical examination and the police were called. She remains in hospital.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel it for the little girl fi a go through dem something here. You hear about 12-year-old and dem something a happen to dem, but a four-year-old? She is very young. So, mi nuh understand dem something here. So, how?\u201d the child\u2019s cousin said, clearly distraught and struggling to make sense of what she said she had been told by the child.<\/p>

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After word of the incident spread within the community last week Wednesday, the accused professed his innocence and said he would remain at home in case the police came in search of him. Lawmen have confirmed that he was taken into custody that day. Up to Wednesday [November 16]\u00a0<\/strong>afternoon he had not yet been charged.<\/p>

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His mother is convinced of his innocence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked him and him seh him did not trouble the little girl. The other day I went to the station and him seh, \u2018Mummy, I am not guilty.\u2019 And I feel bad because right now mi can\u2019t even eat,\u201d she told the\u00a0Observer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMi know seh mi son nuh guilty of it. [He\u2019s] calm, quiet and don\u2019t give any trouble. Him will go a work plenty time and come back and say, \u2018Mummy, you alright?\u2019 and hold me on my head or kiss me on the jaw.\u201d<\/p>\n

A senior citizen from the community, who gave his name as Tony, said he finds it hard to believe that the accused committed such a horrible crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod knows, when mi come and hear seh dat deh youth do dat and a dat deh little baby, mi could not believe seh him could a do dat. Him would a be out ah him mind fi do dat,\u201d he said. \u201cA good boy. Him nuh give no kind of trouble, man. Believe mi.\u201d<\/p>\n

SOURCE: Jamaica Observer<\/p>\n

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A 26-year-old man from this parish is in police custody, accused of sexually abusing a four-year-old neighbour. The accusations have left the families of both the accused and the child in shock and disbelief. \u201cI don\u2019t believe that [he] did that. He is so innocent. He is so calm. 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