A martial arts instructor, accused of committing 12 sex assaults on three schoolboys, was granted $85,000 bail yesterday on the condition he has absolutely no contact with the children. The 50-year-old man was denied bail when he first appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates Court on October 15 because of the victims’ ages and the number of charges.
The charges include six offences of buggery, five charges of serious indecency and one charge of grievous sexual assault. It is alleged he sodomised one child four times. The T&T Guardian is not identifying the man to avoid possible identification of his alleged victims, who are all minors.
The sex assaults allegedly took place between April and September this year when he took the secondary school students — aged 13, 14 and 16 — to his San Fernando home and to the San Fernando Hill for training sessions. The matter was adjourned to December 10.