{"id":33670,"date":"2013-03-28T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33670"},"modified":"2013-03-28T00:03:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T04:03:54","slug":"policeman-acquittal-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/policeman-acquittal-upheld","title":{"rendered":"Sex-Scandal Policeman&#8217;s Acquittal Upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33675\" title=\"justice-crooked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/justice-crooked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/justice-crooked.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/justice-crooked-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Police sergeant Juan Pratt, son of former Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia \u2018Mother\u2019 Pratt, said he is relieved to be able to move on now that the Court of Appeal has dismissed the Crown\u2019s challenge of his acquittal on two sexual assault charges.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2007, 43-year-old Pratt was accused of having unlawful sex with two girls, ages 14 and 15, at his home.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pratt denied the allegations saying he took the girls to the bowling alley and gave them $20, then went home and fell asleep and the girls came into his room and into his bed.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown\u2019s appeal was dismissed and the acquittal upheld.<\/p>\n<p>An article in The Tribune reported that the ruling was read by Justice Stanley John, who at the conclusion, noted that conviction was not the only option open to the magistrate.\u2028Justice Abdulai Conteh agreed and added that allowing the Crown\u2019s appeal would be second guessing the magistrate.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Christopher Blackman said: \u201cI am of the opinion that the decision of the magistrate was unreasonable and cannot be supported having regard to the evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal has upheld the acquittal of a police sergeant who had been accused of  having unlawful sex with two teenage girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[151,31,49,38],"class_list":["post-33670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-law","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}