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SOURCE: DAILY OBSERVER
A construction worker has been found guilty of charges under the Sexual Offences Act.
Damian Williams, 42, was convicted by a jury yesterday on two counts of indecent assault.
Williams was accused of inappropriately touching a minor in March 2022 when he was 39 and the girl was only 10 years old.
During the trial, evidence was given that Williams, a Jamaican citizen, was residing in the same household as the victim, her mother and two younger siblings, as a tenant.
The mother, who is also a Jamaican, decided to take Williams in because she was struggling to pay rent and other bills after the birth of her last child, asking that he pay $450 per month for a room.
The woman reportedly trusted the man because of his connection with her child’s father and other mutual friends.
Williams is alleged to have touched the child on her buttocks or thigh area and kissed her near her lip.
In her testimony, the victim, who is now a teenager, told the court that on March 29, 2022, during the evening hours while sitting in the living room on her younger brother’s bed, Williams came in and sat on her bed.
After staring at her he later asked her to wake him up at 5:30am the following day while brushing against her hand.
The child declined, stating that her mother usually wakes her up for school, after which Williams asked her for a kiss.
Reports are that the child ran to her mother’s room in tears and told her what transpired after which the mother became enraged and confronted the man with a machete, resulting in him quickly packing his belongings and leaving the home.
The police were later notified and following investigations Williams was arrested and charged.
Williams had denied touching the child but later told police he had touched her foot. However, he told the court he had only touched her shoulder.
He will be sentenced on March 28.
During the trial, Williams represented himself while the matter was prosecuted by Curtis Cornelius.
Hope justice prevail. These men need to get the full blunt of the law.
What do these men find so attractive in underaged underdeveloped girls..???
Are they really that unable to to find women to have consensual sex with?
How can u find pleasure while a child is terrified of you.
Shout out to the mother for standing up for her child and i hope justice will prevail.
Good. Lock him up and throw away the key!
He would not be able to collect his belongings without getting his ass chop up ,i would finnish him those perverts im so disgusted with them i Just want to destroy them all leave People children grow and enjoy their Child wood, these perverts are to be taken out
OMG
He should be castrated in public
This is just madness. Real madness. How can you allow a man who is not your man or family into your home and expose your children to him and his behavior. Pureeee madness