{"id":14045,"date":"2010-07-28T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=14045"},"modified":"2010-07-28T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:21:59","slug":"magistrate-says-age-of-consent-should-be-at-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/crime-court-law\/magistrate-says-age-of-consent-should-be-at-18-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate says age of consent should be 18 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14047\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tiyani-behanzin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14047\" title=\"i1035 FW1.1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tiyani-behanzin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tiyani-behanzin.jpg 382w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tiyani-behanzin-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tiyani-behanzin-121x113.jpg 121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magistrate Behanzin at Monday&#39;s forum in Trafalgar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Magistrate Tiyani Behanzin has spoken against a recent upsurge in child sexual abuse on the island, reasoning that the age of consent should be changed from 16 to 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a forum at the Trafalgar Community Center Monday night, Behanzin frowned heavily on persons committing such offenses and the families who support them by accepting bribes to keep silent, while children continue to be abused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I think is a serious epidemic &#8230; is sexual attacks on little girls &#8230; Increasingly, I would say 60 to 70 percent of the matters sent (to high court) involve sexual attacks on children and nobody\u2019s saying anything,\u201d the magistrate said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot understand this one.Families are taking money from men that interfere sexually with their children under five, under 10, under 15, under 14. Mothers are taking money. Fathers are taking money. Families are taking money. We should be ashamed of our selves &#8230; to allow that to go on in the society and do nothing about it.\u00a0 We should be ashamed of ourselves. We shouldn\u2019t call ourselves human beings anymore. We have reduced ourselves to animals if we can do that,\u201d Behanzin charged.<\/p>\n<p>Behanzin referred to a complaint which he received from an \u00a0individual requesting that \u00a0a law be introduced to make it a crime for parents and family members to accept money from accused sexual offenders for abusing their children. \u201cChildren are not to be sold for just a few thousand dollars, and sometimes for less than a few hundred, and the law should be changed to make it a crime&#8230;\u201d the complaint read.<\/p>\n<p>The magistrate presented what he referred to as non-expert opinions which he believed may help reduce the level of child sexual abuse locally. He suggested laws with conditions which prohibit the granting of bail for accused sexual offenders who attack girls under 14 at the magisterial level; and an extension of the age of consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should not get bail for rape of children under 14. First we should change the age of consent from 16 to 18, because at sixteen it may be that your body as far as the state currently says is ready. But certainly you cannot be ready at 16. That becomes a burden on the family to which the 16-year-old resides&#8230;,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Behanzin also proposed that bail for offenses such as rape only be granted by a sitting high court judge or a panel of magistrates who would be allowed to sit and listen to the substantive evidence of a case to decide whether to grant bail or not. These judges or magistrates should then recuse themselves from the case from then on, Behanzin suggested.<\/p>\n<p>The magistrate expressed confidence in the sentences provided by the Sexual Offenses Act, but argued that there may be a need for the revision of the types of sentences administered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReading the sexual offenses act, which is fairly new, the penalties range from 14 years for rape right up to 25 years so I think it\u2019s adequate. The sentences passed don\u2019t tend to come close to these but I think the sentence provision in the sexual offenses act is adequate. But I think that the type of sentence that we have been passing need to send a different kind of message to those who are persistence in sexual offenses&#8230;\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14046\" style=\"width: 618px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/trafalgar-meeting-last-night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14046\" title=\"i1035 FW1.1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/trafalgar-meeting-last-night.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Persons who attended the Trafalgar meeting <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the most determined sentence that you can pass to a persistent sexual offender, somebody who rapes multiply\u201d Should the state consider chemical castration?- a chemical injection is applied and that it. It goes to sleep? Should the state consider that?&#8230;what should the penalty be? It\u2019s not for me to say. But it\u2019s a debate the society needs to have and have it now. Because we are at that point where we have a serious problem with sexual attacks on children,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Behanzin is also convinced that the length of time before a matter is heard at the courts also hinder the prosecution process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a God fearing nation, we cannot, we cannot allow that to go on and sit and pretend we don\u2019t know it\u2019s happening. It\u2019s happening beside us, it\u2019s happening in our homes, it\u2019s happening in our neighbours homes and we need to find a way to say enough is enough. If you\u2019re not going to say that then let the figures continue to rise. But then we produce a generation who have been spoilt, who have been damaged beyond repair. \u00a0So the children they produce will also be spoilt,. The society in the future will have a problem,\u201d the Magistrate pleaded.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting at Trafalgar was held as part of the community&#8217;s ongoing Fete Kaiche&#8217; celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magistrate Tiyani Behanzin has spoken against a recent upsurge in child sexual abuse on the island, reasoning that the age of consent should be changed from 16 to 18 years. 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