Seon Clarke, 42, of Bent Street in Worthmanville, Georgetown, was arraigned on a cybercrime charge on Monday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
He appeared before Magistrate Rhondell Weever, who granted him bail in the sum of $60,000 after he entered a plea of not-guilty to the charge.
Seon Clarke
It is alleged that on May 15, Clarke published electronic material comprising a woman’s personal information with the intent to make her a target of mockery and emotional anguish.
Although the Police Prosecutor had no issues with Clarke being released on bail, he did ask that he lodged his passport with the Clerk of Court and report every two weeks to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters, commencing on September 8.
The defendant is scheduled for another court appearance on September 11 for statements.
Earlier this month, a 22-year-old butcher, Lemuel Dundas of Den Amstel Village, Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) appeared in court on a similar charge after he allegedly threatened to post a woman’s nude photographs unless she paid him.
He is accused of using a computer system to transmit electronic data that intimidated the virtual complainant; using a computer system with the intent to extort a benefit and intentionally acquiring nude photographs and videos of the virtual complainant.
Lemuel Dundas
Dundas too was remanded to prison after denying the three charges.
The Cyber Crime Act, among other things, criminalises the capturing, storage, and transmission through a computer system of the image of a person’s genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or breast without his/her consent. If found guilty by a Magistrate, a person can be fined $3 million and jailed for three years, or by a Judge and Jury a fine of $8 million and imprisonment for five years. (G1)
