Serial sex offender to be sentenced this month
A serial sex offender will be sentenced in Magistrates’ Court at the end of this month.
Devaun Cox, 38, who admitted sexually assaulting a woman days after he was released from the Westgate Correctional Facility, was supposed to be sentenced for the offence last Thursday.
Kathy-Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, issued a public notice when Cox, who suffers from mental health challenges, was released in April.
Cox, of no fixed abode, has been behind bars in connection with the offence since May.
During Thursday’s hearing, magistrate Craig Attridge highlighted Cox’s social inquiry report, which found him unwilling to participate in any probation programme, as well as the possibility of him reoffending after being released.
Despite the social inquiry report, Cox voiced a desire to take part in probation.
• Devaun Cox was first convicted of intruding on a young girl’s privacy in 2012 and sentenced to six months behind bars.
• He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for a similar offence in 2013
• Cox was found guilty of intruding on a girl’s privacy for a third time in 2017 and was jailed for another three years. He appealed this conviction, but it was upheld in 2018
• He was sentenced to another six months behind bars in December 2022 for sexually assaulting a patient at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute in January 2021
Elizabeth Christopher, Cox’s lawyer, added that her client also agreed to take all necessary medications, “but not by way of a needle”.
Mr Attridge said: “This court’s powers are not appropriate to deal with Cox’s situation at all.”
He adjourned the case until November 30 for sentencing and remanded Cox in custody until that time.
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