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Woman jailed for lesbian sex attack
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It is just one of those news items that I just couldn't leave undisturbed. It wonders through a maze of social issues that just seem off the radar in North American media and it asked so many more questions that I'm not sure I'm ready for the answers for.
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Jamaican drug “mule” who was caught red-handed sucking the breast of an illegal Guyanese immigrant
Source: TnT
Author: Azad Ali
Date: 2012.04.15
A 35-year-old Jamaican drug “mule” who was caught red-handed sucking the breast of an illegal Guyanese immigrant at the Female Section of the Immigration Detention Centre, Aripo on Good Friday was jailed for six months on a charge of indecent assault.
Jennifer McKennis pleaded guilty to the charge before Magistrate Lucina Cardenas-Ragoonan in the Arima Court on Tuesday.
The court heard that around 4.30 pm the 25-year-old Guyanese national was coming out of a bathroom with a towel wrapped around her when she was confronted by McKennis, who pulled off the towel and immediately lunged and began to suck the breast of the woman.
Security officers, who heard the screams of the Guyanese woman, went and rescued her from the sexual attack.
She was later charged by Cynthia Tinkew with the offence.
In her defence, the Jamaican woman told the magistrate before passing sentence that it was just a joke.
McKennis was being held at the Centre after being given six months by the court to pay a fine of $185,000 or serve three years in jail for attempting to smuggle marijuana at Piarco International Airport recently.
Currently, there are about 25 female illegal immigrants being held at the Detention Centre awaiting deportation to their various countries. Most of them are from Jamaica, Guyana and Colombia.
The Jamaicans are drug traffickers who have served their sentences and are awaiting deportation, while the Guyanese are those who had overstayed their visit and were picked up by Immigration authorities. The Colombians are alleged prostitutes who entered the country illegally and were held during raids at hotels in Central and South Trinidad.
The Guyanese nationals do not remain incarcerated for long since their relatives purchased their airline tickets for them to return to their homeland.
A source said that recently there was an overcrowding problem in the male section which had forced immigration officers to temporarily put on hold further detention of illegal immigrants in the country.
Last month acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Colin Furlonge paid a visit to the Detention Centre following a report of an outbreak of scabies.
He told reporters that there were only two detainees who were diagnosed with the skin rashes and there was no outbreak.
The Centre can accommodate about 90 male detainees but last month there were about 120. However, over the past few weeks a number of them from the Caribbean and Indonesia were repatriated.
There are now some 88 being detained. Among them are nationals from Nigeria, Africa, China, Indonesia and the Caribbean.
The crackdown on illegal immigrants by Immigration has forced the Ministry of National Security to open up two additional units (dormitories), which can accommodate and additional 60 inmates.
Some of the Nigerians have been detained for more than a year and the Government has not been able to deport them because of visa problems as the US Embassy has refused to grant them intransit visas.
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