Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court remanded to prison a taxi driver who is accused of having carnal knowledge of a girl.
Twenty-eight-year-old Shawn Jupitor of 104 3rd Avenue, Bartica, who was charged with having carnal knowledge of a girl between the age of 15 and 16 years without her consent, was not required to plead to the indictable charge.
It is alleged that on October 2, at 7th Avenue Bartica, Jupitor had carnal knowledge of the girl and later locked her in his car.
Magistrate Robertson ordered that Jupitor be remanded to prison and that he appear at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on October 29.