{"id":245416,"date":"2004-06-11T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/police-officer-charged-with-sex-with-12-year-old-girl"},"modified":"2004-06-11T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T15:14:56","slug":"police-officer-charged-with-sex-with-12-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/police-officer-charged-with-sex-with-12-year-old-girl","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer Charged With Sex With 12 Year Old Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Constable Mervin Omar Smith, 21, of Bay Lilly Drive, Sea Breeze Estates, is facing a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe accused was not handcuffed as he was led out of the court to a waiting cell at the Nassau Street Police Station by a single uniformed officer.  It is believed that officers were unable to handcuff Smith due to the elbow length cast that held his injured right arm.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to court reports, Smith allegedly had sex with the 12-year-old between 2003 and February of 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=1>Source: The Tribune<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An officer of the Royal Bahamas Police Force was released on $5,000 bail yesterday after being charged in Magistrate&#39;s Court with having sex with a 12-year-old girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}