Sophia women beat suspected serial rapist
September 18, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under News
Source - Kaieteur News
More than a dozen women caught a man trying to rape a woman in Sophia yesterday and gave him a severe beating which landed him at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The man was identified as 23-year-old Dwayne Elliot, also of Sophia. He is in police custody.
The victim was also taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where a doctor inspected her.
Reports reveal that in Sophia there has been a series of attempt rapes, rape and break in during which women underwears went missing.
One resident said that approximately 24 women tackled the serial rapist, yesterday, and gave him a sound trashing after his failed rape attempt.
“Plenty women get rape and never reported it.”
Rape has been expanded. Previously rape was confined to the physical penetration by a man to a woman. However, under the new Sexual Offences Bill “penetration means any intrusion, however slight and for however short a period, of any part of a person’s body or of any object into the vagina or anus of another person, and any contact, however slight and for however short a period between the mouth of one person and the genitals or anus of another, including but not limited to sexual intercourse” and the gamut of sexual activities.
The penalty for rape is life imprisonment; for sexual assault, on summary conviction, five years and ten years on indictment. But what seems to be prevalent in Guyana is child sex.
Four years ago, Guyana had cause to modify the age of consent. It was at one time, 13, based on certain practices in keeping with religious traditions.
The age of consent in now 16 but the courts are replete with instances of men having sex with girls, some as young as 12. On conviction the penalty is life imprisonment. We have had cases in the past of the court imposing sentences that lawyers found too harsh. These lawyers often appealed on the grounds severity of sentence. Such options have been limited.
September 18, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under News
Source - Kaieteur News
More than a dozen women caught a man trying to rape a woman in Sophia yesterday and gave him a severe beating which landed him at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The man was identified as 23-year-old Dwayne Elliot, also of Sophia. He is in police custody.
The victim was also taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where a doctor inspected her.
Reports reveal that in Sophia there has been a series of attempt rapes, rape and break in during which women underwears went missing.
One resident said that approximately 24 women tackled the serial rapist, yesterday, and gave him a sound trashing after his failed rape attempt.
“Plenty women get rape and never reported it.”
Rape has been expanded. Previously rape was confined to the physical penetration by a man to a woman. However, under the new Sexual Offences Bill “penetration means any intrusion, however slight and for however short a period, of any part of a person’s body or of any object into the vagina or anus of another person, and any contact, however slight and for however short a period between the mouth of one person and the genitals or anus of another, including but not limited to sexual intercourse” and the gamut of sexual activities.
The penalty for rape is life imprisonment; for sexual assault, on summary conviction, five years and ten years on indictment. But what seems to be prevalent in Guyana is child sex.
Four years ago, Guyana had cause to modify the age of consent. It was at one time, 13, based on certain practices in keeping with religious traditions.
The age of consent in now 16 but the courts are replete with instances of men having sex with girls, some as young as 12. On conviction the penalty is life imprisonment. We have had cases in the past of the court imposing sentences that lawyers found too harsh. These lawyers often appealed on the grounds severity of sentence. Such options have been limited.
