Twenty-four-year-old Police Constable Neal Dookram, who has been charged with engaging in sexual penetration and sexual activity with a boy, has been placed on $200,000 bail after his arraignment on Thursday before Senior Magistrate Alex Moore at the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Courts.
A resident of an East Bank Demerara community, Constable Dookram, of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU), has not been required to plead to the indictable charges he faces. His next court date is February 16, 2023.
This publication understands that Constable Dookram was placed under close arrest pending investigations into a video of him allegedly having sex with the boy.
Last month, interdicted Policeman Wayde Padmore was jailed for 10 years by Justice Sandil Kissoon for engaging in sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl in October 2020. In sentencing the 25-year-old Padmore, whom a jury had unanimously found guilty of the crime, Justice Kissoon had told him that the maximum jail sentence of 10 years was “wholly insufficient”, given the fact that he was, among other things, known to the girl’s family.
According to the Judge, Padmore was “no ordinary” sex offender, as he was a member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) who had sworn to serve and protect his country.
