72 separate incidents of sexual offences have been reported for May this year and the youngest victims were just over 1-year-old while a police officer was also charged with sexual assault in a separate case.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions says there were 12 incidents where the accused and the victims were related to each other.
Of these 12, there were two serious sexual offences where the victims were 1 year 10 months and 1 year 11 months old and the accused persons were a 22-year-old father and a 60-year-old grandfather.
There was another incident where the victim was 3-years-old and the accused was his 32-year-old stepfather.
Another serious sexual offence involved a 73-year-old man who was charged with the rape of his daughter and daughter in law and sexual assault of his granddaughter.
There was one serious sexual offence which happened in a school where the accused was a 42-year-old teacher and the victim a 14-year-old student.
The DPP’s Office was another incident where a 48-year-old man was charged with the rape of a foreign student.
There was one incident where a 61-year-old man is alleged to have sexually assaulted a mentally challenged victim.
The DPP’s Office says that there were 51 cases of rape, 1 case of attempted rape, 3 indecent assault cases, 2 defilement cases and 15 sexual assault cases.
There were 33 victims of the 72 separate incidents in May of whom 21 victims were under the age of 18 years.
There were 3 accused persons under the age of 18 years.
Of these 3, one of the accused is alleged to have raped a 3 year old boy.
The DPP’s Office says a police officer was also charged with one count of sexual assault.
One case of rape, one case of rape and sexual assault and one case of defilement were withdrawn.
There were two incidents of false complaints.
