By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A POLICE officer testified yesterday that a bus driver and another man denied sexually assaulting 13 and 14-year-old girls in 2024 after they were arrested.
Detective Constable Benjamin Johnson testified before Justice Jeannine Weech-Gomez in the trial of Tremiko Dean, 27, and Shaveney Taylor, 20.
Dean faces two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, while Taylor faces one count of unlawful sexual intercourse.
Dean, a bus driver, is accused of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl twice between January 2, 2024, and March 10, 2024, in New Providence.
Taylor is accused of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl on March 10, 2024.
One of the alleged assaults took place at one of the defendants’ residences, while another allegedly occurred in a bus parked at a gas station.
DC Johnson said the defendants came to the police station on March 11, 2024. He said they were later informed of the allegations against them and arrested.
The officer told the defence that he was not the person who photographed the bus allegedly involved in the matter.
The prosecution alleges that the men were physically involved with the underage girls the night before the matter was reported to police.
Shaneka Carey and Betty Wilson are prosecuting the case.
Moses Bain and Keith Seymour represent the accused.
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