OLPF official charged with rape of daughters
A Verification Officer attached to the One Laptop Per Family programme, spent the night in the Camp Street Prison after he could not post the $500,000 bail imposed by Magistrate Zamena Ali when he appeared before her charged with sexual offences allegedly committed against his two young daughters.
The 37-year-old man, who resides at Haslington North, East Coast Demerara, was charged with two separate sexual offences which alleged that he sexually molested the two girls, whose ages are now 16 and seven years old.
One of the charges alleged that he had sexual activity with a child family member, between January 2010 and July 2014.
This was in the case of his now seven-year-old daughter.
The other charge which is related to the 15-year-old alleges that between January and July, he had sex with a child family member.
He was not required to plead to the indictable charges, which were read by the Magistrate after the courtroom was cleared.
The man, who was unrepresented by counsel, stood in the dock shaking his bowed head, throughout the brief hearing, while his wife broke down in tears.
The prosecution intends to tell a story of how the man sexually molested the two girls he fathered with two different women.
The facts of the matter indicate that the man lives with his reputed wife and their seven-year-old daughter at the above mentioned address.
The story broke a few weeks ago after the 15-year-old girl who had been residing with her mother overseas returned to Guyana and went to stay with her father and his new family.
She confided in her mother that during her stay at her father’s, the man had penetrative sex with her.
Her mother kicked up a storm and the allegations soon reached the ears of the man’s wife, who became suspicious that her seven year old daughter too, might have been a victim of sexual assault at the hands of her father.
The wife questioned her child, who confirmed her worst fears by revealing that she too had been fondled by the man.
The matter was reported to the police and after weeks of investigations, the man was taken into custody on Tuesday and subsequently placed before the court.
Police prosecutor, Inspector H. Anthony, strenuously objected to bail, but in the end, Magistrate Ali ordered that the man be granted his pre trial liberty if he posted $250,000 surety on each of the charges.
