Body modification artist gets 11 years for rape

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Karl Warner

Body modification artist Karl Warner has been sentenced to spend just over a decade in prison.

Last month, Warner was found guilty of seven counts of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl over a three-month period in 2021.

The artist had befriended the teenage victim after she visited his business, where he offers body piercing services, to inquire about a procedure.

Warner’s inappropriate relationship with the underage girl developed during subsequent visits to his workplace, sometimes while she was still in her school uniform.

In the trial, the court heard evidence of multiple sexual encounters between Warner and the victim, with the first incident occurring on February 24, 2021.

Justice Tunde Bakre sentenced him to spend 11 years in prison yesterday.

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Comments (9)

  • Anonymous November 27, 2024, 11:35 AM

    Eleven yrs is not enough with this guy this so called tattoo artists are pedephile
    Reply
  • Trevor November 27, 2024, 12:03 PM

    Just 11 years? Only 1 year over a decade? These pedophiles belong in a grave if I have to tell you. Antigua needs an execution system.
    Reply
    • Gods army November 27, 2024, 12:54 PM

      Are you the same trevor that was paying for him in church to get off? And telling him that he wont go to prison?
      Reply
  • Joanna November 27, 2024, 12:06 PM

    11 years is not enough for people like Karl. These tattoo artist are something else. They need to be locked away forever
    Reply
  • Faithful national #1 November 27, 2024, 12:34 PM

    So why is his photo printed with every story on the crime. Recently, an Indian national was found guilty of rape as well. Why is his identity (photograph) not made available to the public???? I’m getting to dislike Abtigua more and more 🥺
    Reply
    • Donna November 27, 2024, 1:10 PM

      Cutie Benjamin controls the law system in Antigua and Barbuda. Whatever he and Gaston said should become public knowledge can be published. Remember, our government (whoever is in power) makes these laws in parliament and cabinet. People with high status are protected from the public.
      Reply
  • Faithful national #1 November 27, 2024, 12:38 PM

    Where is the photo 0f the Indian national recently found guilty of a similar crime? Are we that racist (anti-black) in Antigua??? SMH.
    Reply
  • Cornelius Roberts November 27, 2024, 8:32 PM

    @Faithful national, perhaps they don’t have one. And I read the case of the Indian man. I believe he touched her and she was an adult. I believe this man here screwed the child. Makes sense? But crime is a crime.
    Reply
  • Anonymous November 28, 2024, 6:46 AM

    Yes yes we need all photos of these pedophlies and rapist y print one and not ther other print all we need to see who they are
    Reply

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