Court of Appeal rejects Oliver J. Lewis bail application
The lawyer argued that his client should be given bail pending his appeal for which an application had been made back in December 2015. Daniels had also secured a stay of sentencing.
However, the Crown's contention was that there is no appeal because Lewis was not yet sentenced and also because he did not meet the threshold of exceptional circumstances among others.
Therefore, Lewis' case will be returned to the Magistrate's Court for sentencing at a date not yet known by this news site and he will remain in the custody of the State at Her Majesty's Prison at Balsam Ghut.
Back in December 2015, Daniels had filed an appeal which stayed Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo from sentencing the 35 year old Lewis, who was in early December 2015 found guilty of four counts of gross indecency on a child under 14 years of age, allegedly committed between April and June 2013.
Bible sessions
The court heard on December 3, 2015 that the Virtual Complainant, aged 13 back in 2013, said he was engaged in Bible sessions with the male defendant.
The Magistrate maintained that whether or not the boy agreed to the alleged sexual activity, he could not give consent as he is a minor. The Magistrate said that the relationship between the VC and the defendant was described as a brotherly church relationship. It was revealed that on various occasions the defendant would allegedly pick the Virtual Complainant up from school and take him to his house where they would engage in homosexuality and paedophilia.
Texts & emails reveal much
There were many emails and text messages exchanged allegedly between the Virtual Complainant and the defendant. In some of them the defendant allegedly promised to buy the Virtual Complainant a cell phone. The Virtual Complainant allegedly preferred one kind over another and the defendant pleaded with him saying that he could not afford what the Virtual Complainant wanted.
In some of the texts, the defendant threatened to kill himself because of what allegedly took place between the two.
The Magistrate then went on to read out some of the allegations of sexual encounters between the defendant and the Virtual Complainant.
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