3 rape accused granted bail

Three of five people charged on December 8 with a series of sexual offences against two girls both aged 12, were granted bail by a High Court judge on Wednesday after being denied in the Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.

Shelly Ann Springer, 40, her son Tarique Alleyne, 22, and Tyrell Cummins, 20, were each granted bail in the sum of $150,000 by Justice Carla Brown-Antoine in the San Fernando High Court. They were represented by attorneys Subhas Panday and Petronella Basdeo.

As conditions to bail, all three are barred from contacting the victims either directly or indirectly and were ordered to stay 100 metres from the victims. Alleyne and Cummins were also ordered to enrol in the bail review programme in Port of Spain. Springer and Alleyne will stay with Springer’s daughter in El Dorado and both have to report to the Tunapuna Police Station twice weekly.

Cummins will live with his sister in Tunapuna and also has to report to that police station twice weekly. On December 8, Springer was charged with two counts of sexually touching a girl who was ten at the time, sometime between January 1 and December 31, 2015 at North Trace, New Grant. She was also charged with one count of sexually penetrating a ten-year-old girl at the same address, during the same time period.

Alleyne was charged with two counts of sexually penetrating a ten-year-old girl sometime between January 1 and December 31, 2015 at North Trace New Grant. Cummins was charged with three counts of sexually penetrating a 12-year-old girl at Bonanza Street, Princes Town sometime between July 1 and August 31, this year.

The other two accused in the matter, Jonathon Cummins, 19, and Carlon Singh, 18, did not make applications for bail. All five were charged by Cpl Nicole St John of the Southern Division Child Protection Unit (CPU) following months of investigations which began after the father of one of the victims discovered that she was pregnant.

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