A Penal contractor charged with raping a 12-year-old girl was granted $100,000 bail when he appeared in the Siparia Magistrates Court yesterday.
Tyrone Jagessar, 53, of Rochard Road, Penal, appeared before Magistrate Margaret Alert in the Siparia First Court, yesterday.
Jagessar was represented by attorneys Rennie Gosine and Roopnarine Rambachan.
He was charged by WPC Renn-Lashley of the Penal Police Station.
Alert read two charges to Jagessar.
The first being that sometime between July 31, 2015, and September 1, 2015, Jagessar committed an act of serious indecency against the child.
The second charge is that between December 31, 2013, and January 1, 2015, Jagessar raped the child at her Penal home.
In court yesterday, Gosine said his client is a well-known contractor in Penal and has had no brushes with the law before.
He said Jagessar lives with his mother in Penal.
Police prosecutor, Sgt Baptiste, made no objection to granting bail but asked that conditions be attached to the bail.
After setting bail in the sum of $100,000 with surety and clerk of the peace approval, Alert told Jagessar that he must have no contact with the child.
She told him this includes all forms of social media, texting and sending messages with other people.
Jagessar was also ordered to stay 100 metres away from the child’s home and to stay 100 metres away from her school.
The fourth condition is that Jagessar report to the Penal Police Station every Monday between 6 am and noon.
Alert told him if he breached any of the conditions, his bail would be revoked and he would not be eligible for bail again in the matter.
She then adjourned the case until April 26.