Tramp accused of
raping 5-year-old
MARIGOT--A notorious tramp and beggar who allegedly raped a five-year-old girl over the weekend will be sentenced in Guadeloupe this Friday, Gendarmerie spokesman Capitaine Stéphane Aurousseau said on Wednesday.
The shocking incident occurred on Sunday afternoon when the man who is physically handicapped in one leg reportedly raped the girl near Crousti Bread café and bakery in Concordia. The 30-year-old man was immediately arrested and taken into custody by Gendarmes and transferred to Guadeloupe.
Aurousseau said the girl’s injuries had been treated at the hospital. The parents also were traumatised by the incident.
Aurousseau said the man was well known by police and Gendarmes on both sides of the island and had been convicted previously for sexual offences and aggressive behaviour.
Previously the man had been accustomed to loitering and making a nuisance of himself in Philipsburg, notably around the Kentucky Fried Chicken area, before authorities moved him to the French side because his mother has French nationality.
