Five-year-old child among sexual crime victims: ODPP – FBC News

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A five-year-old boy was the youngest victim of the alleged rape.

This is based on data released by the Attorney General’s Office regarding the formal indictments submitted to the Supreme Court last month.

According to ODPP, a 16-year-old boy is accused of allegedly raping his brother, who is his cousin.

In October, 16 people were charged with a total of 44 sexual offenses.

These include 27 counts of rape, one count of assault with intent to commit rape, four counts of indecent assault and 12 counts of sexual assault.

ODPP said that of the 16 defendants, one was a child and two were police officers.

10 of the 18 victims were under the age of 18.

There was one male victim and 17 female victims.

There were eight incidents in which the victims and defendants were related.

A 52-year-old police officer was accused of sexually assaulting a 47-year-old woman, while in a separate incident a 51-year-old police officer was accused of indecent assault on a 23-year-old female police officer. officer.

There was an incident where a 40-year-old man was charged with six counts of simulated rape, two counts of sexual assault, and two counts of indecent assault against his 9-year-old and 7-year-old daughters.

In another incident, a 42-year-old man was accused of raping his 16-year-old stepdaughter twice.

A 49-year-old man was accused of one count of rape, four counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault against his 13-year-old nephew, while in a separate incident a 50-year-old man was accused of raping his 31-year-old nephew.

In another incident, a 30-year-old man was accused of twice raping and once sexually assaulting his 16- and 13-year-old nephews.

There were two separate incidents in which a 44-year-old man and a 32-year-old man were accused of raping and sexually assaulting their de facto partners, but both cases were stopped due to inconsistent evidence and the victim not wanting to come forward. Come forward and provide evidence.

A 22-year-old man was accused of raping a 6-year-old girl, while in another incident, a 34-year-old man was accused of raping a 9-year-old girl from his village.