BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Three media workers, including two journalists are due to re-appear in court on March 11 next year after they appeared in court charged with showing an indecent photograph of two minors.

The publisher of the Nation newspaper, Vivian-Anne Gittens, as well as the Editor-in-Chief Roy Morris and senior journalist Sanka Price, were placed on BDS$5,000 (One BDS dollar = US$0.50 cents) bail and ordered to hand over their travel documents after appearing in court on Thursday.

The police are alleging that the photograph which accompanied the story ‘Sex Scene’ and published on October 26 was an indecent picture of two 14-year-olds in violation of the Protection Of Children Act.

The prosecution did not object to bail being granted to the three media workers, who were represented by attorneys Alair Shepherd QC, and Ezra Alleyne. 

Alleyne requested that the prosecution provide disclosure related to the case to the defence team as early as possible.

The charges stem from the publication of a picture of two school children having sex in a classroom on the back page of the October 26, 2013 Saturday Sun.

Two teenage boys, aged 16 and 15, who were allegedly responsible for photographing the act appeared in court on a charge of taking an indecent photograph sometime between September 1 and October 31.

They were released on BDS$10,000 bail and placed on a 7:30 pm to 6:00 am curfew.