A 46-year-old Colombian national was denied bail on Thursday when he appeared before a Port-of-Spain magistrate charged with the sexual touching of a nine-year-old child.
A TTPS media release yesterday said Josea Alberto Mina Mazuera, of La Baja Road, St Joseph, appeared before Magistrate Aden Stroude in the Seventh Magistrate’s Court.
The release said the offence was alleged to have occurred on September 24 at the child’s Port-of-Spain home.
Bail was denied to facilitate the processing of an immigration detention order and the accused was remanded into custody. The matter was adjourned to December 29.
Mina Mazuera was charged by WPC Whitney Charles of the Child Protection Unit in Port-of-Spain Division on December 19.
The release said the Colombian has been in the country illegally since 2008.