Nassau, BAHAMAS- A man who robbed his nine-year-old stepdaughter of her innocence by raping her has been jailed for seven years.
The stepfather’s name has been omitted to protect his victim.
He was convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a dependent last July.
The court heard that the man began molesting the child months after he married her mother in 2017.
The girl said the man would have sex with her in the marital bed while her mother was at work.
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Nassau, BAHAMAS- A man who robbed his nine-year-old stepdaughter of her innocence by raping her has been jailed for seven years.
The stepfather’s name has been omitted to protect his victim.
He was convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a dependent last July.
The court heard that the man began molesting the child months after he married her mother in 2017.
The girl said the man would have sex with her in the marital bed while her mother was at work.
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Nassau, Bahamas – A newcomer to the magistracy has been named as acting chief magistrate.
Defense lawyer Roberto Reckley was officially appointed on Tuesday, July 12 to manage magistrates with decades of experience.
The selection has caused some magistrates to question the selection process.
With just 13 years at the bar, Mr Reckley will be managing people who’ve been magistrates longer than he’s been a lawyer.
Mr Reckley is filling in while Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt is on vacation.
On her return, she will be sworn in as an acting Supreme Court judge—a vacancy created by the appointment of Senior Justice Bernard Turner as an acting appellate judge.
During a farewell party, Ferguson-Pratt asked staff to support Reckley.
She said, “I want to put your full support behind Mr Reckley; that’s a gift you could give to me. Give him your full support.
“Don’t get in the corner and backbite and undermine, saying why him? Come on, he couldn’t appoint himself. So, support him, and by so doing, you’re doing good for yourself.”
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Nassau, BAHAMAS- A shooting victim who bought an illegal gun for his protection has been jailed for two years.
Police arrested Ronel Aime following a July 6 raid on his home at West End Avenue.
While searching the residence, the officers found a loaded 9mm pistol containing 13 rounds of ammunition on a shelf.
They also found two socks. One of them contained 39 rounds of 9m ammunition, and the other had 20 rounds of 7.62 ammunition. The officers also found one and a half pounds of marijuana.
The 39-year-old pleaded guilty to possession of an unlicensed firearm, possession of ammunition with intent to supply and drug possession with intent to supply.
Aime said that he had been living in fear since he was shot multiple times in 2015.
He said police had never caught the shooters and he didn’t know who they were.
As a result, Aime bought a gun to protect himself.
Aime said that he wasn’t on the streets with the gun “looking for trouble.”
Aime was sentenced to concurrent sentences of two years’ imprisonment for the gun and ammunition. He will spend another year in custody if he doesn’t pay a $1,500 fine for the ammunition charge.
He was fined $500 on the drug charge.
In 2016, Aime was sentenced to two and a half years for illegal gun possession.
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Nassau, Bahamas – A disgraced pastor and principal has been jailed for kissing a 13-year-old student in 2020.
Thomas Nottage Sr, the pastor at Grace Evangelical Ministries and the principal at its companion school, Grace Christian School of Excellence, was sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment.
Nottage, 54, has to pay a $1,000 fine and $500 in compensation to his victim, to avoid spending an additional six months in prison.
Nottage was charged with indecent assault after he called the girl into his office as she waited for her ride and kissed her against her will.
He admitted to hugging the child and telling her that he loved her. However, Nottage denied that he kissed her.
Nottage suggested that the student maliciously accused him because she had been disciplined for disruptive behavior in class.
Nottage faced a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
He didn’t receive the most severe sentence because he had no prior convictions and his crime was not considered the worst form of indecent assault.
Nassau, Bahamas- A cop accused of asking a woman with outstanding arrest warrants for sex to avoid arrest has been charged.
Constable 4206 Shaquille Williamson has been charged with procuration following his arrest on July 5.
Prosecutors say Williamson was on duty when he found the 32-year-old woman and her boyfriend parked on a beach.
Williamson did name checks on them both. After learning that the woman had outstanding arrest warrants, Williamson allegedly told her she had to have sex with him to avoid arrest.
Williamson didn’t have to enter a plea to the charge when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.
He was denied bail and is next due to appear in court on October 12.
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Nassau, Bahamas- A policeman has been charged with vehicular manslaughter after allegedly driving drunk and causing a collision that killed his girlfriend.
Prosecutors say Inspector Dalton Knowles ran into the guardrails on Bahamas Gamaes Boulevard, causing the death of Temeka Duncombe, his front seat passenger.
Knowles was also injured in the accident and had to be hospitalized.
The accident happened on December 17, 2022.
Knowles was charged after it was determined that he had been driving while intoxicated.
Knowles was not required to enter a plea to the charge when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Roberto Reckley.
He was granted $8,000 bail and he returns to court on October 19 to receive a voluntary bill of indictment.
In the interim, Officers Knowles has been interdicted from his duties until the matter is resolved.
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A key witness to the 2013 murders and kidnapping of senior immigration officer Shane Gardiner and his girlfriend Tishka Braynen has died.
Terrel Mackey, a former co-conspirator, who was granted immunity from prosecution after he became a cooperating witness, was found dead in his car on Saturday, July 1. Foul play is not suspected.
Mackey’s testimony helped the prosecution secure convictions against Zintworn Duncombe, Daniel Coakley, James Johnson and Cordero Saunders in 2016.
However, the men’s convictions were overturned in 2020 and a new trial was ordered after the Court of Appeal found that a material irregularity occurred at their trial.
The Court ruled that the trial judge failed to thoroughly investigate an altercation between an alternate juror and the jury forewoman.
The defendants are currently on bail awaiting a retrial. Mackey’s sudden death is unlikely to affetct the upcoming trial since his testimony could still be entered into evidence.
NASSAU- A second suspect in the home-invasion armed robbery of businessman Andrew Wilson has been murdered while on bail.
Akandi Gibson was gunned down outside his home in Garden Hills shortly before 1pm on Friday, June 23.
According to police, two masked gunmen shot Gibson as he sat in the passenger side of a car. He died on the scene.
Coincidentally, Gibson’s co-accused, Randy Williams, was murdered last June.
Two thugs gunned down Williams in an ambush as he left the gym on the campus of the A F Adderley Junior High School after playing basketball.
Prosecutors say Gibson, Williams, and Dominic Stuart and forced their way into the Wilson’s home around 9pm on December 30, 2021.
They allegedly tied up the family and robbed them of jewelry and cash before Williams and Gibson took Mr Wilson and his wife to the Mall at Marathon.
While there, they allegedly forced Mr Wilson to give them money from the safe in his store, QBC Electronics.
Stuart, the remaining suspect, is expected to be tried in July 2024.
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The police have arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with the rape of an 83-year-old woman in her home.
It is alleged that the woman was at her New Providence home when the suspect beat and sexually assaulted her around 2:30pm on Monday, June 19.
Police arrested the suspect on Soldier Road later that day.
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