Logger admits to sexually assaulting 9-year-old girl
…gets life imprisonment
A logger who was earlier this year jailed for multiple attacks on a child family member was on Monday sentenced again to life imprisonment, this time for again engaging in sexual activity with a child under the age of 16.
Rohan Daniels, also known as “Shine Buck”, opted against wasting the court’s time and admitted to the offence when the matter came up before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
In this instance, he was said to have sexually violated the nine-year-old girl between January 1 and August 26, 2016. After hearing from the State and Daniels’s Attorney, Clyde Forde, Justice Sewnarine-Beharry sentenced the offender to life imprisonment ordering that he must serve 30 years before he was
Rohan Daniels, called “Shine Buck”
eligible for parole.
However, even if he is freed by that time, he is likely to remain incarcerated, since another judge, Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall had also sentenced him to life imprisonment. In that case, Justice Morris-Ramlall ordered that Daniels serve 40 years before becoming eligible for parole.
In January 2018, the convicted rapist went through a trial and he was eventually found guilty on two counts of sexual activity with a child family member by a 12-member jury at the High Court.
On that occasion, by a ratio of 11-1, the jury found him guilty on the first count and by 10-2, determined that he was guilty on the third count. However, on the second count, the jury was unable to return a formal verdict (9-3), while the defendant was unanimously found not guilty on the fourth count.
According to the particulars of the first and fourth counts for which he was found guilty earlier this year, Daniels, between April 12 and 13, 2014, and July 23, 2016 performed vaginally penetrative acts on the minor. She was between 10 and 13 years old during the span of the attacks. At that time, he was unrepentant for his actions after being found guilty of raping the child. However, the man admitted on Monday that he engaged in sexual activity with the young relative. The State was represented by Lisa Cave and Orinthia Schmidt.
