TWENTY FIVE-YEAR-old Portmore resident Granville Dyer, was remanded in custody when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court recently, charged with abduction.
The court heard that at approximately 3:00 p.m. on November 1 last year, the nine-year-old complainant was on her way from school in the Braeton area. She was reportedly in the presence of a cousin but later went on her own.
The court was told that Dyer, who was sitting on a wall, walked over to her, held on to her, eventually placed her in a taxi and took her to the Bayside area near the old Forum hotel.
Upon reaching an abandoned building, the child is said to have ran and was rescued by a passing police patrol. She related her ordeal to the officers who went back to the location and caught Dyer.
It is said that he told the police that he was just helping the child to look for her school bag.
When he appeared before Resident Magistrate Lorna Errar Gayle recently, Dyer's attorney's application for bail was turned down. The RM told him that the prevalence of sexual offences against children, would not allow her to grant Dyer bail.
She added that it is a new year and everyone has to take up the mantle against criminal elements as it relates to the safety of children. Dyer was subsequently remanded until Monday, January 30.
R.T.
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