Farmer charged with carnal abuse, buggery
WESTERN BUREAU — After about a week on the run, St James farmer, Ronald Stephens was on Thursday arrested and charged with three counts of carnal abuse and buggery of a nine-year-old girl.
Stephens, who resided at Shaw Castle District in Maroon Town, was accosted by police officers with the assistance of residents, who were reportedly angered at him for his alleged crime against his neighbours’ child.
The 41-year-old farmer was accosted inside the Marldon area of the parish. He is to appear before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to answer the charges against him.
Corporal Lancelot Tyrell of the Constabulary Communication Network, told the Observer yesterday that Stephens sexually assaulted the nine-year-old child on three occasions this month.
On March 17, 19 and 23, Corporal Tyrell said, the accused man’s neighbours sent their little girl to his home to do piano lessons, when he allegedly had sexual intercourse and buggered the little girl.
After the matter was reported to the police the farmer allegedly fled the area.
This is the third incident of carnal abuse in the parish since the start of the year.