By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Court Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was sentenced to six months in prison by a Magistrate’s Court yesterday for the indecent assault of a woman last year.
Alfred Pierre, 46, faced Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain on a charge of indecent assault.
At around 12pm on September 22, 2021, Pierre is accused of approaching a woman who was walking south on Nassau Street near St Agnes Cemetery and touching her breast.
Witnesses of the assault came to the victim’s assistance and chased Pierre away. The accused was later arrested and pleaded guilty to the charge in court.
A review of Pierre’s antecedents revealed that he had two previous vagrancy convictions.
When asked by the magistrate why he had assaulted the woman, Pierre said he did it for no reason and just because he could.
With the accused already spending six months on remand in the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services, he asked that the court release him for time served.
Magistrate Swain sentenced him to six months for the charge for which time served on remand will be considered.
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