A 32-year-old woman appeared in court yesterday in San Juan Trinidad, charged with three offences arising out of her daughter’s rape.
The woman, is charged with preventing her daughter from giving a statement to the police in relation to her rape on a date unknown between March 1, 2009 and April 16, 2012.
The mother of four is also charged with failing to report her daughter’s rape to the police. She pleaded not guilty to both offences as they were laid summarily.
If found guilty the mother faces a $20,000 fine and imprisonment for a term of ten years for deterring her daughter from reporting and a fine of $15,000 or imprisonment for a term of seven years or to both such fine and imprisonment for failing to report the rape.
The mother is also charged with unlawfully supplying a pill to her daughter to procure a miscarriage, contrary to Section 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act, on September 7, 2009.
This offence carries a punishment of two years’ imprisonment. The woman, was granted $40,000 bail.
The matter has been adjourned to July 22nd 2013.
