BY BARBARA GAYLE, Staff Reporter
A BUS CONDUCTOR who abducted two schoolgirls and sexually assaulted them two years ago was on Wednesday sentenced to a total of eight years' imprisonment.
He is Junior Salmon, 23, of 11 Daffodil Avenue, Kingston 11.
Salmon was charged with rape and carnal abuse and he pleaded guilty to the charges when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court this week.
The facts of the case were that on January 7, 2003, a 16-year-old girl was on her way from school. She was travelling on a minibus and when other passengers alighted from the vehicle, the girl was the only passenger in the minibus. The driver instead of going to the terminus in Duhaney Park, St. Andrew turned the bus around and said he was going to the shopping centre at Duhaney Park.
The girl told him to let her off but he refused. When the girl began to scream, Salmon told her to shut her mouth or she would get shot. The driver went to the Olympic Gardens, Kingston 11, where Salmon forced the girl out of the bus, took her to a house and raped her. The matter was reported to the police and Salmon was subsequently arrested and charged.
In the other case, Salmon saw the girl downtown Kingston on June 10, 2003. He forced her into a bus and then took her to his house where he sexually assaulted her. He was arrested and charged with carnal abuse
Justice Almarie Sinclair-Haynes sentenced him to eight years' imprisonment for rape. He was sentenced to five years and six months for carnal abuse. The sentences are to run concurrently so he will serve eight years.
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