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Sukie being taken to court on Friday. Credit: MTV News Grenada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dominican entertainer, Sukie, will spend the next six months in a Grenadian jail after he pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a minor.<\/p>\n

He appeared in court on that island on Friday.<\/p>\n

The entertainer, whose real name is Shane Edward, was accused of touching a Guyanese teenager living in Canada who was a guest at a resort on the south of the island.<\/p>\n

He was a guest at the hotel awaiting to perform at a concert Grenada National Cricket Stadium on Saturday, November 26.<\/p>\n

When he first appeared in court on November 28, he was denied bail.<\/p>\n

Sukie appeared in court again on December 1 but the matter was set for Friday, December 2.<\/p>\n

According to Grenadian law, indecent assault carries a maximum sentence of five years behind bars.<\/p>\n

But when Sukie appeared in court on Friday, his attorney Jerry Edwin pleaded for a lesser sentence.<\/p>\n

In mitigation he said his client is apologetic to the court, the victim and her parents for his behavior.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the media after the court appearance, Edwin said the sentencing guidelines were the benchmark which the magistrate used to arrive at the sentence.<\/p>\n

“The starting point was actually 18 months in prison but ultimately the magistrate, after mitigation, which we offered to the court, sentenced Shane Edwards, the artist Sukie from Dominica, to six months in prison,” he said.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that no special treatment was given to Sukie and the case was treated with fairness.<\/p>\n

“The court considered the all of the factors, as it normally does, it didn’t treat with this matter as anything more special or different,” he stated. “But I think the magistrate made an important point which I think cannot be understated. There are far, there are way too many cases involving sexual offenses of all types, from indecent assault all the way up to rape in our jurisdiction.”<\/p>\n

According to Edwin, throughout the region there is an epidemic of sexual offenses and justice was served in the case of Sukie.<\/p>\n

“The magistrate correctly points out that too many women, old and young, are victims,” he stated. “Many women do not come forward. These two young ladies did and one of them, who was actually indecently assaulted, 15 years old, made a report to the police. And so the magistrate has given us his sentence, we do not at any point ever disagree with justice.”<\/p>\n

Sukie will now spend the next six months at the Richmond Hill Prison, in St George’s, Grenada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominican entertainer, Sukie, will spend the next six months in a Grenadian jail after he pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a minor. He appeared in court on that island on Friday. 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