66 year-old Venustiano Pacheco, a Mexican National, is spending his first night of a 3-year sentence after he was convicted of aggravated assault of an indecent nature in the Magistrate's Court today.
An 8 year-old child reported to police that at around 7:30 p.m. on February 25, 2011 in a Village in the Belize District, she was bathing behind her house, when Pacheco, who had been a neighbor for 10 years, sexually assaulted her.
She came to testify in camera to just that allegation, and her aunt corroborated the story by testifying that Pacheco was speaking to her before the assault.
She left him downstairs, and went into the house, and she opened a window to the back, she saw Pacheco assaulting the girl. She said that she shouted at him, and he fled.
Pacheco testified under oath and he denied what the aunt told the court, saying that she was telling lies on him.
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith didn't accept his explanation and she found him guilty of the offence
She sentenced Pacheco to serve 3 years in prison.
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