Girl, 10, sexually assaulted

MAYARO police arrested a man on Friday who reportedly lured a ten-year-old girl into his house by offering her a snack and then sexually assaulted her.

The 45-year-old man, an employee of the Ministry of Works, has been charged with committing grievious sexual assault on the child and will appear before a Mayaro Magistrate tomorrow. According to police reports, around midday the child left school to purchase snacks at a nearby parlour when she met the man who is well known to her family. He reportedly showed her a snack and invited her to pass by his home, located about a 100 feet from the school, for more snacks. The girl agreed and left with him.

Police sources said the man took the child into his drawing room and sexually assaulted her. The school’s Principal later heard, from someone, that the child was seen entering the man’s house. The Principal later went to the house where she saw the crying child walking out of the house. The child later told the Principal what had happened and also that the man shoved $10 into her shoes asking her not to tell anyone what had happened. The Principal later telephoned Mayaro police, who arrived and arrested the man. The child was taken to the Mayaro District Hospital where the DMO medically examined her and confirmed to investigators that she had been sexually molested.