Rhon­dor Dowlat

Neil Bisses­sar, the 29-year-old "PH" taxi dri­ver who was charged with sex­u­al groom­ing of an 11-year-old girl, was yes­ter­day grant­ed $50,000 bail when he reap­peared be­fore Ch­agua­nas mag­is­trate Joanne O'Con­nor.

Court pros­e­cu­tor Sgt Ken Ali pro­duced a doc­u­ment to O'Con­nor which she then spoke out loud say­ing Bisses­sar had a court mat­ter for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na.

How­ev­er, his at­tor­ney, Tara­dath Singh, in­formed the court he was the rep­re­sent­ing at­tor­ney for Bisses­sar's pos­ses­sion case last year and added that the case was dis­missed. The mag­is­trate then grant­ed bail and in­struct­ed Bisses­sar to stay away from the child vic­tim.

How­ev­er, that did not go well with the par­ents of the child.Speak­ing with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, the child's moth­er said she thought the court pros­e­cu­tor would have ob­ject­ed to bail.

Bisses­sar's moth­er was seat­ed in the court and was briefed by Singh af­ter his ap­pear­ance with re­gards to the pro­ce­dure to se­cure her son's bail.

Po­lice claimed that text mes­sages were sent to an 11-year-old girl al­leged­ly telling her to send pic­tures of her­self and even ask­ing to come over to her house.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed by the po­lice and Bisses­sar, of Sankar Dri­ve, Long­denville, was ar­rest­ed and charged by PC Corey Williams of the Long­denville Po­lice Post. His first ap­pear­ance in court was on Mon­day af­ter­noon.The mat­ter was ad­journed to Oc­to­ber 19.