A 14 year-old boy who stole into a 20 year-old woman's bedroom and indecently assaulted her as she awoke from sleep was remanded to the Youth Training Centre after his bail was revoked. The La Romaine teen appeared before San Fernando Fourth Court Magistrate Alicia Chankar changed with the November 14 offence. Chankar had initially granted the teen $25,000 bail and warned him to stay away from the woman and her premises. However she revoked the bail when the boy's father said he had received other complaints.
The man said his son needed counselling. "Obviously he needs help," the magistrate said as she remanded him to YTC. The teen pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting the woman. PC Bisnath laid the charge. Police Prosecutor Sgt Russell Ramoutar said the woman awoke around 9.45 am on Sunday to find the teen, whom she knew for ten years, sitting on the bedroom floor. She asked him what he was doing there and he replied, "Wham girl!." He stood up, approached her and indecently assaulted her. The woman struggled with the teen and he ran off.
The woman made a report at San Fernando police station. Ramoutar said the woman did not give the teen permission to touch her. When confronted by police the teen said: "Boss ah really grab her." He has no previous convictions. Chankar asked the teen what he was doing in the woman's house and he said, "Nothing." "How you land up on the floor at that time?. Are you all related?," she asked. "No," he replied.
Chankar reserved sentencing to November 26. She ordered a Probation Officer's report. The teen's father told the court said his son spent five weeks at St Michael's' Home for Boys and they released him on the condition that he would not get into trouble. "He started behaving and then I don't know what happened," the father said. Chankar asked how the teen was performing in school and the father said: "The teachers said he takes a long time to settle and he is disruptive."
