10 YEARS IN JAIL FOR INDECENT ASSAULT

Grenada's female resident High Court Judge Justice Charmine Pemberton on Tuesday landed a ten (10) year jail sentence on a 23 yr. old Mt. Parnassus man after he was found guilty of Indecent Assault. Franklyn Borris was handed the stiff sentenced  for the indecent assault of a 5 year old girl in 2001.

When the matter begun on Monday Senior Crown Counsel at the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP's) office Mr. Darshan Ramdhanny gave a detailed outline of the Crown's case which he  intended to prove. He presented the Crown's case with the aid of the Prosecution's witnesses, before a nine member mixed jury at the number two High Court in St. George's,  presided over by the Lady Judge.

The prosecution stated that Borris had attempted to sexually assault the child at her Mt. Parnassus home on the afternoon in question.

Grenada Today gathered that on the day Borris committed the offense he had seen the victim's elder brother lower down the road and proceeded towards the victim's home in search of her brother.

It is believe that the defendant then went inside of the child's room where he attempted to have sexual intercourse with her but was unsuccessful.

Reports are that Borris fled the house un-noticed, when he heard the child's mother calling, as she entered the yard. The child whose name has been with-held, is said to have called out to her mother and then reported to her what Borris had tried to do to her.

The mother claimed that her daughter told her, to come and see what Franklyn had tried to do to her. The child she explained said, "Frankly tried to rape me''.

However following the Jury's decision and Judge's sentencing of Borris on Tuesday afternoon, the mother of the victim told reporters that she could have been the one going to Prison today, if she had caught the accused in the act.

''He is very lucky I did not meet him. Besides which I had just given birth to a baby, and the Doctor had to cut me, or else like I told the Police I would have dealt with him myself''.

She noted that she was happy that justice had taken its course and said that she got justice for her child. Borris wept as he approached the police transport.