A police corporal is being investigated after a female prisoner was sexually assaulted in the prison bus. The female alleged that two weeks ago, she was being taken from court to the Belize Central Prison when two male inmates assaulted her. 21 year old Kevin Bodden and 29 year old Jareth Crawford were both arraigned last week for one count each of sexual assault. At the time, Magistrate Herbert Panton questioned how it was that the female prisoner could make such allegations when the prison van is separated with one section for females and the other for males.
But our reports say that on the day of the allegations, the proper van was not available, and the officer who was in charge of the inmates gave orders for a female police officer to accompany the female to be transported to the prison - along with five male prisoners. But something went wrong and now the male corporal who is in charge of the prisoners is now facing disciplinary action.
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