Former Bishop’s High School teacher remanded on rape charge

Former Bishops’ High School teacher Coen Jackson was on Thursday remanded after he was arraigned with rape of a child under the age of 16 when he appeared before Magistrate Leroy Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Jackson, 39, was charged with engaging in sexual activity with a child under the age of 16 by abusing his position of trust at D’Urban Street, Lodge between December 2010 and May 2011.
The disgraced teacher was represented by Attorneys Sanjeev Datadin and Siand Dhurjon.
Jackson, who has been a teacher for the past 15 years, is being accused of abusing his position of trust as a teacher after he began grooming female students for sexual activity after they would have attained the age of 16; the legal age of consent in Guyana.
He has vehemently denied the accusations but did admit to having sexual relations with two former students who are both in their early 20s now.
The embattled teacher recently got married to one of his former students.
The Police claim that between December 2010 and May 2011 at D’Urban Street, Lodge, Jackson raped one of his students. The Education Ministry had launched a full-fledged investigation into the allegations and upon completion, authorised the Police to begin conducting a criminal investigation.
The Police’s investigation resulted in Jackson being arrested in December and subsequently released on $100,000 bail.