Man convicted of molesting his daughter in the Bahamas
A man who begged his teenage daughter not to expose him for molesting her because he didn’t want to go to prison spent his first night in jail Tuesday night after a jury convicted him of incest.
The most woman, an eight-person jury deliberated for two hours before unanimously convicting him of two counts of incest.
The 48-year-old businessman shook his head and sighed loudly after the forewoman announced the verdict. Then the man, who was on bail, held out his hands for the court orderly to cuff him.
The assaults occurred between 2015 and 2016 when his daughter was 15 and 16.
The daughter, now 22, testified in graphic detail about the two incidents in the upscale gated community where he lives.
The incidents happened two years after the girl began to build a relationship with her father, who had initially denied her.
The first incident occurred after 9 p.m. on an unspecified date in 2015 near the pool after her father turned off the lights.
The second incident occurred on October 13, 2016, inside his condominium. He turned on a porn video before violating her and afterwards went to pick up her half-brother from school.
The jury also heard a telephone conversation in which the man begged his daughter to remain silent about the sexual abuse because he didn’t want to go to prison.
He apologised for what he had done and claimed that an uncle had also molested him at age 12.
The man denied the sexual abuse accusations in a police interview and his testimony.
According to him, his daughter concocted the abuse allegation because she was angry when he didn’t buy her a car.
On the other hand, his daughter testified that she had rejected a $5,000 bribe from the defendant’s brother for her not to testify.
Justice Guillimina Archer-Minns refused a request from Murrio Ducille, KC, to allow his client to remain on bail pending a sentencing hearing scheduled for December 12.
Ducille has requested a social inquiry report to assist the court with arriving at a suitable penalty.
Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Basil Cumberbatch was the prosecutor.
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