British Belizean David Taylor, he's the accused pedophile who was charged back in December of 2012 of committing extreme acts of pornographic exploitation of 3 boys on the Placencia Peninsula. After more than 3 years awaiting trial, he hadn't made our newscast up until April of this year when he was shot in the driveway of his new house at mile 26 on the Phillip Goldson Highway.
We'll he's back in the news tonight, because he's in jail, spending his first night of a 2-year prison sentence. That's after he pleaded guilty to 3 counts of indecent assault.
Now, to get to that guilty plea, Taylor forced the Police prosecutor, Inspector Dennis Miles, to provide the court with overwhelming evidence against him. That included subjecting the 3 boys he was accused of abusing to relive in graphic detail the sexual abuse that he inflicted on them. The children testified in a trial before the Chief Magistrate, Ann Marie Smith, that he molested them, and forced them to take pictures while naked.
As viewers would remember, the police searched his home back in December of 2012 and found 50 videos and 500 photographs of 4 young boys between the ages of 10 and 13 years-old being made to pose nude and engaged in various homosexual acts with adult males. Well, our information is that from the time of that discovery, police hadn't charged him for all that. But, on the strength of the testimony of 3 of those boys, the prosecution made a strong case against him.
So compelling that evidence was that his attorney, Ellis Arnold, came back to court today after the last adjournment. They were to begin with presenting their defence, but instead, Arnold informed the court that Taylor wanted to plead guilty. When he formally uttered the guilty plea and the Chief Magistrate accepted it, he broke down in tears and apologized to the victims and their parents.
Taking no chances, Inspector Miles submitted to the court that any remorse he is showing cannot reverse the scars of the abuse he inflicted on these boys. Taylor had no previous conviction, and so, Chief Magistrate Smith sentenced him to 2 years for each count. That's a total of 6 years, but he will only spend 2 years continuously, since the sentences are to run concurrently.
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