 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.

 A mother consented to rape of 12-year-old. Investigators 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.
The two alleged abusers and the mother of the child were taken into custody on
Friday and were expected to be charged and appear before the courts of law. Reports
alleged that the mother was herself repeatedly sodomised by her partner and she
supposedly proposed that the man turn his attention to her daughter.

 Federal Supreme Court freed rape accused

Because the alleged victim at a rape trial failed to negate consent, rape accused Adams
was freed by the Federal Supreme Court in 1961. The appellant was convicted of rape.
The defense was consent. The woman first accused the appellant, in front of a constable,
of having snatched a ring and money from her. She repeated that accusation at the police
station and made the accusation of rape only after the appellant had said that he had
intercourse with her with her consent. 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. 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. The conviction cannot safely
be allowed to stand so, the conviction was quashed and the sentence set aside.

 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. The rape case against the 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.