50 year-old Dennis Frazer, a laborer of Burrell Boom Village, is spending his first night of a 3 year sentence after he was convicted in Magistrate's Court of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature this morning.
The victim, a 10 year-old female testified in closed court that sometime before 11:20 a.m. on April 26, 2012, Frazer entered her home while she was in the living room.
She said that she was there along with her 7 year-old sister, who Frazer immediately sent on an errand.
He then approached the victim; pushed on the sofa, cover her mouth with his hand, pulled down her clothing, and fondled her. While he was exposed, and in a kneeling position in front of the child, the child's older sister walked and caught him in the act.
When the sister walked in on him, he immediately pulled up his pants and left the room.
The older sister also testified for the prosecution that she left the house and went to get water, and when she returned she caught Frazer assaulting her sister.
When the prosecution closed their case, Frazer testified in his defence he is a married man, and that it was the child's fault.
He said that the child called him inside the house to fix a chair that was broken, and when he finished, the child pulled down her pants and underwear, and exposed herself to him in a tantalizing manner.
He said that this was when the child's older sister walked in and saw that the girl's clothes were off.
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, after to considering all the evidence, ruled that he was guilty of the offence.
She sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 3 years, saying in open court, that if the law allowed her, she would give him more jail time.
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