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Monica Bodden spoke to the boy and his family today - and here's the story:…

Monica Bodden
"At any point did this man touch you?"

Victim
"Yes."

Monica Bodden
"In an uncomfortable way?"

Victim
"Yes."

Monica Bodden
"How are you dealing with it?"

Victim
"I just want justice. You shouldn't be talking with strangers because you don't know what can happen."

Monica Bodden
"Were you scared that night?"

Victim
"Yes."

Monica Bodden
"I see you are getting emotional - a little teary. It's hard for you?"

Victim
"Yes."

Monica Bodden
"You want the law to take action for what he has done to you?"

Victim
"Yes I want him to be punished."

Monica Bodden
"Are you scared that he may want to come back and do something to you because you are speaking out?"

Victim
"Yes I'm scared because when he comes out he can come back again."

Monica Bodden
"You are also proud of yourself for speaking out because he may have done this to other young men right?"

Victim
"Yes."

Monica Bodden Reporting
The incident happened on Thursday night around 7:30 in the village of Succotz.

This 14 year old boy, told us he was being fondled and asked to perform anal sex by a man identified as Roy Cumberbatch - a resident of Belize City.

Cumberbatch - who says he is a process server - and no stranger to the village came to the 14 year old minor's house to collect money for a copy of a birth corticated that the family had requested.

According to the child's mother, night had already set in when it was time for Cumberbatch to leave and so Cumberbatched asked if her son could walk him out to the front of the village since the area had no electricity.

Clarita De La Fuente, Mother
"I went and gave him 50 dollars for the birth certificate. When I finish paid him, he asked me if my son can accompany him. As a mother I didn't think nothing was going to go wrong. I wasn't scared to send him. I told my son to walk with him. I started to feel nervous when I notice 10, 15 minutes passed and he didn't come back home."

"My two younger children and I went to look for him. I thought maybe he already killed my son; I didn't thought of anything else. I saw two persons standing far ahead. I ran towards them and I saw my son and the man pulling up their pants. I shouted what are you doing to my son and he told me nothing, nada."

The 14 year old minor is accusing Cumberbatch of pulling down his pants and touching his penis.

Today the little boy in an off camera interview and with consent of his mother told us Roy Cumberbatch pulled down his own pants, and asked the boy to have sex with him. When the 14 year old refused and tried to run, he was pulled back.

Victim
"When me and the man came out of my house, say like at a distance from where I am sitting to around the corner he asked me which collage I attend and I said Mount Carmel. He then told me he made pants and shirt and began measuring me. He took my pants measurement from my waist down to my foot and from my waist up for the measure of my shirt."

"After that we continued walking. While walking, he asked me if I wanted to hear a secret. I didn't think that the secret would have been bad. The man laughed while asking me. I said yes, and the man asked me if I wanted to go to La Puerta Negra. The man told me he had two laptops but he only used one and said he would give me one of the laptops if I went with him to Puerta Negra. He said he would give me a scholarship for two hundred and fifty dollars every month."

"We continued walking and the man asked me if I had a passport, I told him no. Then he told me, if I wanted, he would get me a passport. All I needed was a social security card and a birth certificate to take out a passport. I told him yes. He asked me if I could go with him. I told him I can't because I have nothing to do there. We continued walking and we stopped by the football field and he begun touching me. I didn't left myself, I pushed his hands away. Then he took off his pants quickly. I wanted to run away but I couldn't because I felt my foot heavy. He pulled down my pants quickly. When he saw I didn't left myself, he grabbed me by force. He wanted to have sex with me by force but I didn't left myself. My mother shouted what are you doing with my son? She came running where we were and I ran towards her."

"And we were running back home and he was following us and my mom told him to give her back the 50 dollars she gave him and she told him she will report him to the police."

The 14 year old minor and his mother called the police but when police arrived, Cumberbatch was nowhere to be found.

Inspector of Police Dinsdale Thompson - Second in Command - Beque Viejo
"At some time around 8:30 pm we receive a report of an incident in the village of Succotz just about a mile and a half from the Benque Viejo Town here. Upon the police arrival at the scene of where we have receive information of where the incident took place, we have found a minor who made certain reports to us. Based upon that we carry out an investigation which we then brought in the minor and carry out certain investigation. Later on like an hour or so after we receive another call from the villagers in Succotz whereby at that moment we have visited back the same village where we have found the accuse by the name of Mr. Roy Cummerbatch whom have receive certain injuries having been detain by the villagers from Succotz Village."

Around 9 o'clock on Thursday night, villagers spotted Cumberbatch walking down this hill in the village. That was when everyone bombarded - beating him to the ground and them tying him up for police.

Wilson Pat -Village Council Advisor, Succotz
"Previously we haven't heard what happen but some of the folks that live near to the lady (the mother) were searching around the area. So they had gun, they had machete and so on that specific time when we saw the man we run down this road here and other were coming from the other direction - so he had nowhere to go."

Monica Bodden
"So he was badly beaten?"

Wilson Pat -Village Council Advisor, Succotz
"It was - his face bulge out and everything was cover in blood. He was holding his ribs like he was in pain. The guys whap his with machete from behind and they whap him with the gun butt in his back."

Monica Bodden
"He was being tied up?"

Wilson Pat -Village Council Advisor, Succotz
"After he was beaten, they tie his and legs with a rope. He was on the ground and people keep coming to beat him."

Monica Bodden
"And then police came after?"

Wilson Pat -Village Council Advisor, Succotz
"Afterwards police came. But you see we are a friendly people, everybody that comes here we assist them - if you want water, they give you water, information or whatever but don't come do stupidness here because you will get the sense of Succotz."

Inspector of Police Dinsdale Thompson - Second in Command - Beque Viejo
"He was charged with aggravated assault. We have taken the young man who is the complainant to the hospital and our investigation with the doctors' report we have sufficient information to charge him with aggravated assault."

He was arraigned in San Ignacio Magistrate's Court today on the charge of Aggravated Assault and was offered and released on bail.