NASSAU-A magistrate today jailed a man for one year after he admitted to touching an 11-year-old girl’s hip.
Tyrese Robinson, 25, of Derby Road, pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault regarding the May 11 incident.
The inappropriate contact occurred after the child took out Robinson’s cornrows, the court heard.
Robinson, a friend of the child’s mother, asked the girl if she could keep a secret before he caressed her buttocks, making her feel uncomfortable.
The girl didn’t keep Robinson’s dirty secret. Instead, she told her mother what he had done and her mother called police.
Robinson did not have a lawyer at his arraignment.
Prior to sentencing, Robinson asked Magistrate Samuel McKinney to show him mercy. He said was no longer welcome at the child’s mother’s home.
Robinson said he wouldn’t “do it no more.”
The magistrate asked Robinson if he had any children.
Robinson said he had two children, ages three and four. When questioned by the magistrate, he agreed that he wouldn’t want an adult to do the same thing to his children.
Robinson faced a maximum sentence of three years in prison; however, the magistrate imposed the one-year sentence due to his age and early guilty plea.
