NASSAU-Prosecutors have charged a man with having an illegal sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.
Ashton Sturrup, 21, of University Drive, did not enter a plea to the charge of unlawful intercourse with a minor at his initial court appearance before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.
Prosecutors allege that Sturrup engaged in unlawful sexual conduct with the child on May 29. A girl under the age of 16 cannot consent to sex.
Sturrup will have to seek bail in the Supreme Court. That’s because the magistrate did not have the authority to consider bail on the charge.
He returns to court on September 8. At that time, prosecutors intend to send the case to the Supreme Court by presenting a voluntary bill of indictment (VBI).
