Son of prominent VI based attorney convicted of rape in US
George Fay, 23, was in tears as he was led away in handcuffs after the verdict at the Manhattan Supreme Court in New York, USA.
He had denied rape, a criminal sexual act and sex abuse but was found guilty on all three charges by a jury that deliberated for three hours.
Fay, who is facing up to 25 years in prison, was remanded to protective custody until sentencing on February 27, 2018 and ordered to be placed on suicide watch.
The university dropout, according to various newspaper reports, is the eldest son of Michael J. Fay, QC, who sits as a Deputy High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Virgin Islands.
The conviction of Mr Fay was reported by a number of news outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom, including New York Daily News, The Sun and Daily Mail.
Victim thought she was dreaming
According to the New York Daily News on February 2, 2018, Fay broke down sobbing as he was handcuffed and his bail revoked following the guilty verdict.
Fay, who was staying in the apartment, sneaked onto the bottom mattress of a bunk bed shared by the victim and Fay’s passed-out pal after a night of drinking, and took advantage of her around 5:30 A.M. on July 9, 2016.
An hour earlier, he had been scouring Backpage.com for escorts and made nine calls to prostitutes without hiring one, prosecutors said.
The victim testified she “thought I was dreaming” as Fay penetrated her mouth and raped her.
In her hazy state, she believed the man she’d just had a consensual encounter with, an acquaintance from the University of Delaware, was engaging her again.
She was horrified to wake up and learn it was actually a total stranger.
“My eyes weren’t open so I just didn’t understand what was happening,” she told the jury last week.
His father, Michael, who also heads a disputes and transactions firm in the Caribbean, declined to comment after the verdict, according to the New York Daily News.
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35 Responses to “Son of prominent VI based attorney convicted of rape in US”
How is that bringing him down? How about he brought himself and family down!
Seems like we so bitter about Tortola we just find any excuse to berate the country.
Michael Fay is a good man and has done good for putting the Territory on the map...he didn't need to be shamed like this...We make children but we don't make their mind. His child messed us...and bad...but don't run this family through the mud in the local papers...the crime was committed in the US. Hope this is a wake up call for the youngster to get his life in order and make his parents proud.
You make children you don't make their minds
This is indeed a sad day for that family. It reminds me of that Dutch Family whose son was accused of killing that American student (Natalie Halloway) then years after he murdered a young lady in a hotel. His father was also a judge. It is so sad that young people with such good opportunities fail to realise that and just throw that away in exchange for a life of torment in hell. How much of us simply dream of attending an Ivy League school and living in manhattan and this guy list focus.
I must say that I have known George his entire life and I do not know him to be this monster the media is portraying him to be. I find him to be a gentle and sensible kid, raised by two loving and present parents. Let’s not be hasty to pin this on bad parenting as no one is a perfect parent and no child is perfect either.
I feel that this is the sort of thing that can happen when youngsters allow alcohol to completely cloud their judgement. There is a lesson here to do your best to teach children the dangers and set examples for them to follow.
Prayers for both families are needed.
typical blame the victim mentality. That is why it have so many pedophiles and domestic violence abusers loose in Tortola, because stupid people blame the victim. What do you mean she bring it on herself? have you read the accounts of this story? the girl was sleeping! with someone else! and wake up to find him assaulting her! when did she give him consent to do that? did she entice him while she was asleep? did she tell him to drink and loose control of his faculties? is a bunk bed the appropriate place to sleep in that have 2 people already in it, when there was an empty bed right above, or a couch or the floor?
really? please, do tell us all how she could have brought, the violation of her person on herself while she was asleep?!
you are as sick as he is and any other person who justifies this behavior.
Stop normalizing bad behavior! bad behavior is bad behavior!
Oh My God, what is wrong with you both?!!
Hopefully u will never sit on a rape jury trial with your disgusting and antiquated views
The fact it was not consented because she was asleep, she identified him and he did not say that it was not him.
My heart goes out to both families.
I pray that God may grant them peace that surpassed all understanding.