Teen girl's rape trial begins

Mon, Aug 16th 2010, 08:00 PM

By ARTESIAâ DAVIS
Guardian Senior Reporter
artesia@nasguard.com
A teenage girl has accused a distant female relative of forcing her to have sex with a man. Virginia Sands and her boyfriend, Christopher Archer, are on trial for the January 11, 2007 rape of the girl when she was 16.
Sands and Archer denied the allegation when their trial opened before Supreme Court Justice Vera Watkins yesterday.
The girl, who is now 19, testified that she was at the Junkanoo Festival in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, with friends when Sands called her. She said she got into the vehicle with Sands and her boyfriend and they took her to Crossings Beach where Sands forced her to perform oral sex on Archer. She said Ar ...

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