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A former One Bermuda Alliance candidate and ex-chairman of the West End Development Corporation has been warned he faced a jail sentence after he was convicted of a sex assault on a 20-year-old woman. Raymond Charlton, 62, was found guilty of the ass...

A teenage girl yesterday told Magistrates’ Court that an 81-year-old man who gave her lifts home after school grabbed her buttocks. The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said that she ran into the man while she was out for a st...

An 86-year-old man convicted of child sex offences from more than 40 years ago has lost an appeal against his conviction and sentence. Robert Smith, 86, was jailed for six months for a string of sex offences committed in 1977 against an 11-year-old b...

In acknowledgement of Black History Month, The Royal Gazette continues the publication of stories throughout February on African-American and global African people, events and institutions, and their contributions in history Denis Mukwege is a N...

Parents and teachers have been invited to join an international online talk about child sex abuse tonight. The Zoom discussion is also open to other members of the public, including police and anyone who works with children. Shervonne Hollis, one of ...

A 24-year-old Devonshire man was remanded in custody yesterday after he admitted repeatedly sexually exploiting a 12-year-old girl. Shundray Gilbert pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to three counts of touching the pre-teen for a sexual purpose wh...

A man was remanded pending a social inquiry report after he admitted making sexual advances on a child. Daquan Burgess, 23, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to intruding on the privacy of a girl. The court heard that the victim, aged 14...

A 39-year-old man yesterday denied an allegation that he exposed himself to a teenage girl. The man, from St George’s, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to a charge of intruding on the privacy of a child in a manner likel...

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision not to charge two policemen over allegations of attempted rape of a fellow officer. Mark Pettingill, the lawyer for the complainant, argued Larry Mussenden, the then Director of Public Prosecutions made “danger...

A 43-year-old child sex offender, who used a child for his own sexual gratification, was released on Christmas Eve after serving only 18 months of a five-year sentence handed down in November 2019. The community has a right to know some important det...

A 35-year-old man has denied a sex assault on a woman. The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to the charge in Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The offence is alleged to have happened on December 29 last year in Devonshi...

The year 2021 presents opportunities to speak up against abuse. Offences from bullying, sexual harassment, grooming and revenge porn have undergone public scrutiny this past year. Legislation has been passed to provide better protection to those in B...