ABACO- A woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for the statutory rape of a runaway girl.
Amanda Rachel Major, 24, will receive credit for the seven months she has already spent in custody.
Major, who is originally from Nassau, went to Abaco in search of a job.
While on the island, she met the 15-year-old girl. The minor ran away for several weeks in February 2021.
She revealed that she was with Major and that they been intimate.
Major, who made her first court appearance on March 30, pleaded guilty to sexual intercourse with a minor of the same sex in July. The age of consent in same sex relationships is 18.
Major didn’t have the opportunity to choose the venue of her trial at her initial court appearance on March 30.
