An Airy Hill, St Joseph man has been remanded to Dodds Prison after confessing to raping a 12-year-old girl a decade ago.
The admission was heard moments before a jury was selected in the No. 2 Supreme Court for the trial of Winston Harcourt Boyce, 69, as his attorney Derek Boyce asked for his client to be re-arraigned.
Boyce was charged that between May 18 and 19, 2014, he had unlawful sexual intercourse with the minor.
Co-accused Rushanty Mozel Ashton, 27, of Golden Ridge, St George, also threw in the towel and admitted to indecently assaulting the girl on May 19, 2014. She was represented by legal counsel Dave Cumberbatch.
Accepting the pleas on behalf of the State, Principal State Counsel Olivia Davis told the court that on the night of May 18, the complainant’s mother recalled going to sleep after 8 p.m. and leaving her daughter watching television in her room. She awoke after midnight and realised that the side door was unlocked and the child was missing. She searched the neighbourhood and contacted the police who arrived on the scene.
Later that morning, she noticed a conversation on the smart television in her daughter’s room with a man called Shawn Daniel, Boyce’s son. Davis pointed out that Daniel had already been sentenced for the assault. In the conversation, Daniel told the girl he was coming to collect her and to not fall asleep.
Her daughter returned home after 1 p.m. that day and the mother immediately called the police. They went to the police station and then to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where the girl was examined and admitted. After being discharged, she was referred to the Psychiatric Hospital for counselling.
Remanding Boyce to prison, Justice Randall Worrell adjourned the case until July 17. Ashton remains on bail.
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