A 35-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison in High Court Tuesday after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting his 14-year-old stepdaughter.
The man — whose name was ordered withheld to protect the identity of the alleged victim — was charged with indecent assault and buggery and initially denied the allegations.
He recently pleaded guilty to buggery, however, prompting Crown prosecutors to offer no evidence for the assault charge, which was dropped.
During his arraignment in Magistrates’ Court in September, Senior Crown Counsel Christilyn Benjamin said the man was accused of sodomising the girl in her bed between June and September 2007. He was also accused of offering to pay her for sex, the prosecutor said.
At the time, he was offered $50,000 bail with one surety and ordered to surrender his travel documents, avoid contact with the girl and report daily to the Road Town Police Station.
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