A 33-year-old bartender was granted $200,000 bail yesterday after he appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl.
Sylvester Ryan appeared before Magistrate Aida Mohammed on two charges of sexually penetrating the child at a house in Port-of-Spain on December 13 and 14.
Ryan was granted bail to be approved by a clerk of the peace and ordered to reappear in court on January 25.
Constable Makeda Edwards, of the Child Protection Unit, laid the charges.