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Father Charged for Incest
posted (November 17, 2009)

A 32 year old man who is a naturalized Belizean originally from Salvador was charged with two counts of incest and one count of grievous harm when he appeared today in the Magistrate’s Court. Because of the nature of the offence he was denied bail. To protect his victim we cannot issue his name or address but the circumstances of the case are as follows.

His daughter a 12 year old reported that that cases occurred at their home in a rural area of the Belize District. The child claims that in the first encounter in March of last year the father entered her bedroom at night and molested her. In the second case, happened in December of 2008 when the child was on her way to get some water, sensed what was going to happen and ran, but he chased her down, overpowered the child and molested her in the outdoors.

A doctor confirmed that the injuries to the child amounted to grievous harm. He has been remanded until December 23rd.

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