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The sentencing of a man who admitted having sex with a 13-year-old girl has been pushed back until Wednesday. Chez Rogers, 20, was originally scheduled to be sentenced last Friday for charges of unlawful carnal knowledge and luring. The offences took...

A man who admitted two sex offences against a 13-year-old schoolgirl is be sentenced at Magistrates’ Court next week. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe signalled that Khayriek Woolridge, 27, would probably be sentenced to time served after he spent five ...

A lawyer told the Supreme Court that “young women” seduced older men for “sport” as he argued for a lighter sentence for a client who had sex with a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Charles Richardson was speaking yesterday after Chez Rogers, 20, earlier plea...

A law to protect the young from grooming for sex by people in positions of power was backed yesterday by the Senate. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, said the Criminal Code Amendment Act would create a new crimi...

A gay rights charity has voiced its support for a police officer who accused two colleagues of a serious sexual assault. OutBermuda said in a press release that it backed the officer’s legal challenge of a decision by the Director of the Department o...

A police officer who accused two colleagues of a serious sexual assault is to ask for a judicial review of a decision not to prosecute them, it was revealed yesterday. Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said Larry Mussenden, the Director of th...

The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families, the Coalition for the Protection of Children, Family Centre, and Saving Children and Revealing Secrets jointly celebrate the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2020 recently tabled in the Senate by the A...

A serial sex offender was jailed for 15 months after he admitted a string of crimes against women. Gregory Scott pleaded guilty at Magistrates’ Court on Friday to a sex assault and intrusion on the privacy of several women. Juan Wolffe, the senior ma...

A man jailed for sexual offences against a ten-year-old schoolgirl has lost an appeal against his conviction. William Franklyn Smith, 27, was sentenced to ten years in jail earlier this year after he was found guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge, att...

Two police officers have been charged with a serious sexual assault, it was revealed yesterday. Both officers also face an allegation of perverting the course of justice. A police spokesman said the pair had been suspended from duty. The spokesman ad...

A 22-year-old woman told a court that a 61-year-old man made lewd comments about her body and grabbed her buttocks. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons alleged that the defendant made “uncomfortable” comments about her breasts when he vi...

A 27-year-old man will spend ten years behind bars for sexual offences against a ten-year-old schoolgirl. William Smith was found guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge, attempted unlawful carnal knowledge and two counts of sexual exploitation of a you...