CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE

VAUGHN THOMAS
v.
THE STATE
The appellant was convicted of buggery committed on a 14-year old
boy on the 27th March, 1999, and was sentenced to 10 years'
imprisonment.

Mother consented to rape of

12-year-oldInvestigators were told that the 12-year-
old’s stepfather, along with another close male family member, has
been sodomising the child for in excess of one year since her 11th
birthday, with due consent of her mother

BECAUSE the alleged victim at a rape trial failed to negate consent, rape accused

Adams was freed by the Federal Supreme Court in 1961. that accusation at the

police station and made the accusation of rape only after the appellant had said

that he had had intercourse with her with her consent.

The only other evidence relevant to the issue of consent was that of the medical

witnesses who were in conflict with each other. Held: the conviction could not safely

be allowed to stand and the provisions of s. 16 (1) of the Federal Supreme Court

(Appeals) Ordinance, 1958 [1958] should be applied.

Appeal allowed. Her answer to the appellant’s challenge is clearly not a complaint.

If she had complained, that fact could be taken into account to negative consent.

GUYANESE FREED OF RAPE CHARGE IN BARBADOS

According to Barbados Today, Martin and Nelson had been accused
of having sexual intercourse with the female on June 11, 2017,
knowing that she did not consent to the act or was reckless as to
whether she consented..A rape case against two Guyanese was
discontinued in Barbados’s District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court on
Tuesday, 15 months after they had been placed on remand at HMP
Dodds. “That’s it . . . you are free to go!” the two were told before
the shackles and manacles were taken off and they walked out of
the No. 2 District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court free of the charge.