No bail for youth on sex charge

Stressing that she had “certain obligations”, Magistrate Manila Renee remanded a young man accused of engaging in sex with a 12-year-old girl.

“I have certain obligations and the law requires me to look at this serious,” she said in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court as she dealt with 21-year-old Shelton DeWayne Milton Blackman, of Denton Road, Grazettes, St Michael.

He was not required to plead to having sexual intercourse with a girl, a minor, with the purported consent of that minor and that minor is under the age of 16...