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Police Constable Charged For Raping Young Girl
posted (April 21, 2015)
Tonight a police constable in Corozal has been charged for a heinous act: taking a 14 year old girl on his police motorbike and raping her. PC 1093 Cyril Casimiro attached to the Corozal branch will be arraigned tomorrow on charges of rape and wounding.

Yesterday evening at 5:00, the girl and her mother went to the police station and told them that earlier that day, at around 1:00 in the afternoon, Casimiro was in what is known as the battle dress uniform - which is the black police outfit - when he stopped to offer her a ride home. He was on a police motorbike - and the child had known him for a month. With that she agreed but alleges that instead of taking her home, he headed towards the Consejo road where he raped her. He then took her home where the child told her mother - who went to the police. From there, the child was examined a doctor who confirmed that she had been raped and classified the injuries as "Wounding".

The officer commanding Corozal said it is a compliant that was treated with utmost priority:

Supt. Andrew Ramirez, O/C Corozal
"The officer is presently in our custody here at the Corozal Police Station. We are doing the necessary investigation, because under my management I do not want the community at large to believe that we are going to sweep this underground or cover the police officer. To my understanding, he has in the past been accused of not that type of rape, but a similar sexual crime as a police officer as well."

He will be arraigned in Magistrate's court tomorrow. Casimiro has been in the police department for over ten years.

This gross act of misconduct for a law enforcement officer comes 7 weeks after two police officers in Independence Village were accused of getting a 13 year old girl drunk at a bar and then raping her.

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