A 32-year-old man has been charged with one count of incest for allegedly having sex with his niece and getting her pregnant.
The government alleges that the defendant had sexual intercourse with his niece between April and July this year. The relationship allegedly started with a Facebook messenger conversation last year, and lead to sexual encounters between the man and his niece at the defendant’s home.
Court filings say when the girl started vomiting and stopped eating her mother took her to the hospital for a check up.
A pregnancy test was positive. There were two other pregnancy tests as the mother wanted to make sure the first result was accurate. Both were also positive. The girl then told her mother that she was raped by the defendant, her uncle. When the mother confronted the defendant he didn’t deny his niece’s statements and suggested that he can pay his and the girl’s fares to go off island for an abortion.
Bail for the defendant was set at $2,000.
