A taxi driver was moments ago sentenced to 18 months behind bars after being found guilty of touching the private parts of an 11-year-old girl.
Forty-one-year-old Rishi Seepersaud, of Station Street, Kitty, was on trial before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Marcus-Isaacs in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Seepersaud had pleaded not guilty to the charge, which stated that on September 8, 2018, at McDoom Public Road, East Bank Demerara, he engaged in sexual activity with a child under the age of 16.
The matter was held in-camera and members of the public and the media were asked to exit the courtroom.
According to information, on the day in question, the child was a passenger in Seepersaud’s vehicle and, while in the vicinity of McDoom Public Road, he parked his vehicle, turned up his music volume and touched the child’s private parts.
The child then told her mother what transpired, and the matter was reported to the police. An investigation was then carried out. Seepersaud was arrested and charged for the offence.
