A judge jokingly told a 17-year-old youth who was sentenced to three years probation for carnal abuse in the Home Circuit Court on Friday to temporarily quit studying Biology in school as he had already completed the practical.

Justice Lloyd Hibbert made the comment after Attorney-at-Law Jean Barnes informed him that her client - a former Calabar High School student - was furthering his studies.
As Barnes mentioned the subjects her client was pursuing at his new school, the judge interrupted when she listed Biology among them.

"Biology?" Hibbert asked.
Hibbert then told the youth to drop Biology for a while as he had already "done the practical before the theory".
Last June, a 13-year-old girl told her mother and the police that the youth was her "boyfriend" and that the two had had sex.

The girl left home for school on June 13, and when she did not return home her mother made a report to the Lawrence Tavern police in St Andrew. The youth was arrested and charged on June 19 for having sex with the girl. Based on information the mother received, the two were found at a house in Lawrence Tavern.
The youth recently pleaded guilty to carnal abuse.
Barnes told the court that the 13-year-old was introduced to her client by a mutual friend, and that the girl had expressed a desire to have sex with him.

Barnes added that adults find it difficult to control their sexual urges, much more a "boy his age" - and that under the circumstances, it was difficult for her client to refuse having sex with the 13-year-old.

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