A 65-year-old man was arrested for the rape of a 15-year-old girl on Sunday, 15 July at the Glenmore Section in Mayflower.
According to Mayflower Police’s spokesman, Const Tryphina Utla, the alleged rape took place on 21 June when the victim was walking home from church choir practice.
She was accompanied by two boys at 6pm when they passed the suspect’s house.
“The suspect stopped the three teenagers and asked the two boys to go buy bread and cigarettes for him at a nearby shop, leaving the girl behind. She was then allegedly raped,” Const Utla said.
She added the victim did not tell anybody until 12 July when the two boys informed one of the church elders that they were going to the suspect’s house to collect money from the suspect, who paid them for sleeping with the victim.
According to reports, the suspect tried to bribe the grandmother of the victim not to report the matter.
The suspect appeared in the Mayflower Periodical Court on Monday, 16 July.
The case was postponed to Monday, 23 July and the suspect remains behind bars.
