A San Fer­nan­do con­trac­tor who al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly abused a child for five years was grant­ed $.6 mil­lion bail when he ap­peared in court yes­ter­day. Dave Fri­day, 51, a jan­i­to­r­i­al con­trac­tor, is al­leged to have first as­sault­ed the child when she was sev­en.

Yes­ter­day, he stood be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Cher­ril-Anne An­toine in the San Fer­nan­do First Court charged with 12 of­fences, in­clud­ing five counts of sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion, five counts of griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault and two counts of se­ri­ous in­de­cen­cy. The sex crimes were al­leged­ly com­mit­ted be­tween 2011 and 2016.

Fri­day went to the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit based at the Oropouche Po­lice Sta­tion on Sat­ur­day, where he was ar­rest­ed and sub­se­quent­ly charged by PC Nygelle Di­a­mond. Fri­day was not called up­on to plead to any of the charges yes­ter­day.

In seek­ing bail, his at­tor­ney Can­dace Price said Fri­day, a fa­ther of five, had no pre­vi­ous con­vic­tions or pend­ing mat­ters.

She said he was not a flight risk as his pass­port was stolen four years ago. Ask­ing for rea­son­able bail, Price said Fri­day had the full sup­port of his fam­i­ly, in­clud­ing his el­dest daugh­ter and oth­er rel­a­tives who were in court.

Pros­e­cu­tor Cley­on Seedan did not ob­ject to bail but asked for sev­er­al con­di­tions, in­clud­ing that Fri­day stay away from the vic­tim, have no con­tact with her, re­port to the po­lice sta­tion and pro­duce proof that his pass­port was stolen.

The mag­is­trate grant­ed him $600,000 ap­proval bail and a cash bail al­ter­na­tive of $30,000. How­ev­er, the mag­is­trate or­dered Fri­day to re­side at a spe­cif­ic ad­dress in Clax­ton Bay, stay 100 feet away and have no con­tact with the vic­tim, who is now 14.

He al­so has to re­port once a week at the po­lice sta­tion and pro­duce his pass­port doc­u­men­ta­tion to the court. The mat­ter was ad­journed to Oc­to­ber 23.