UPDATE: Green gets 7 yrs for unlawful sex with a minor

-Justice Redhead laments not being able to hand down a heavier sentence

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Collin Green, who pleaded guilty in the High Court to the charge of having unlawful sex with a girl under the age of 16 years, was sentenced to seven (7) years in prison when he appeared before Justice Albert Redhead today, July 12, 2013. Photo: VINO

Justice Albert Redhead will this Thursday, July 11, 2013 decide on a sentence for Collin Green who was indicted for having unlawful sex with a girl under the age of 16 years of age. Photo: VINO/File

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Jamaican Collin Green, who pleaded guilty in the High Court to the charge of having unlawful sex with a girl under the age of 16 years, was sentenced to seven (7) years in prison when he appeared before Justice Albert Redhead today, July 12, 2013.

Green was given the maximum sentence by Justice Redhead who said his hands were tied considering the fact that the court had to accept a guilty plea of the lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor on the grounds that the victim was too traumatized to face the defendant in the court to give evidence.

When he appeared in the High Court on Monday July 8, 2013 Green pleaded not guilty to the charge of rape of a minor. He however, pleaded guilty to the charge of having unlawful sex with a girl under the age of 16 years.

The offence was allegedly committed on August 7, 2012.

"My hands are tied. I am annoyed that my hands are tied because I could assure you that you would have gotten the upper rod," Justice Redhead told Green.

The learned judge added that women have no right to be abuses and its time men recognise that fact. He added that Green had betrayed the trust of the family and at the time of the incident the child was asleep.

"No matter what Mr Daniels (Green's lawyer) may have to say I have made up my mind that he will be getting the maximum but it hurts me, it really hurts me that I cannot give more than seven years in this case, it really hurts me, he would have been getting the upper end," Redhead reiterated.

In the case of rape, the maximum sentence would have been life in prison while in the in the case of unlawful sex the minimum is five years and the maximum seven years.

See previous story posted July 9, 2013

Collin Green pleads guilty to unlawful sex with a minor

Justice Albert Redhead will this Thursday, July 11, 2013 decide on a sentence for Collin Green who was indicted for rape of a girl under the age of 16 years of age.

The offence allegedly occurred on August 7, 2012.

Appearing in the High Court on Monday July 8, 2013 Green pleaded not guilty to the charge of rape of a minor. He however, pleaded guilty to the charge of having unlawful sex with a girl under the age of 16 years and was remanded to prison until July 11, 2013 when he will be sentenced.

Green is represented by Attorney at Law, Stephen Daniels.

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