Witness freezes on stand in unlawful sex case

Fri, Aug 23rd 2019, 08:26 AM

 

A teenager who was allegedly a victim of unlawful sexual intercourse at a police station froze during her testimony yesterday and refused to answer any questions about the incident.

The 14-year-old is the virtual complainant against Dwayne Decosta, a former reserve sergeant accused of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

Prosecutors allege that Decosta sexually abused the girl, then 13, while she was at East Street South Police Station on July 14, 2018 for safekeeping.

Decosta, who is on bail, has denied the charge at his trial before Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson.

The timid witness told the court that on the morning in question her mother dropped her to her father’s home around 6 a.m. after she spilled water in her mother’s bed.

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