Log In

Changes to the management of sex offenders in prison are working, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs said this morning. Kathy Lynn Simmons told the Senate: “Sex offenders who do not complete the required programmes during incarceratio...

A 26-year-old man was convicted yesterday of sexual offences against an underage girl. A jury found William Franklin Smith guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 14 and sexual exploitation of a young person by a person in a po...

A man has denied sexually abusing an underage girl. The 26-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told a jury yesterday that he never had any sexual contact with the child. Prosecutors alleged that in one incident that took place on or abou...

A sex offender will be released without an electronic monitoring device on Monday after he argued it would cause him pain. Junius Caines, 50, was jailed for serious sexual assault after his attempt to rape a woman was foiled by passers-by in August 2...

A preteen girl told the Supreme Court yesterday that she did not tell anyone she was sexually assaulted because she was scared. She explained that she only told her great-grandmother about the abuse after a man was discovered in her bedroom. The c...

A preteen girl told a jury that she was sexually assaulted in her family home as a Supreme Court trial began yesterday. The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, described to jurors how a man groped and had sex with her 2½ years ago. Her emot...

A man who was imprisoned for serious sexual assault after his attempt to rape a woman was foiled by passers-by is to be freed next week. Junius Carman Caines will be released from Westgate Correctional Facility on Monday. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Mini...

One in three people said they experienced some form of sexual abuse as a child, according to a new survey. More than 600 people took part in the adverse childhood experiences research conducted by the Bermuda Health Council in partnership with Family...

A senior has denied sexual assaults on two girls more than 30 years ago. The 81-year-old man pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to three counts of sex assault on the girls, who were aged under 14 at the time of the alleged offences. T...

A senior yesterday denied two sex assaults on a girl aged under 14. The 71-year-old, of no fixed address, is alleged to have committed the offences in Pembroke sometime between August 1 and 31 last year. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons...

A 61-year-old man accused of a sex assault on a 20-year-old woman was given three more weeks to prepare his defence. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was ordered yesterday in Magistrates’ Court to return to court on June 24. The defend...

Releasing personal details under public access to information about sex offenders who have served their jail terms would not be fair to those individuals, according to information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez. Ms Gutierrez, in a decision due to b...