18-year-old Remanded for Sexually Assaulting Minor

Kevon Palmerston

An eighteen-year-old teenager is accused of sexually assaulting a fourteen-year old minor.   Tonight, he is on remand at the Belize Central Prison awaiting a possible Supreme Court bail following his arraignment on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse.  Kevon Palmerston is charged for the offenses that are allegedly to have occurred on August thirty-first, and again on September seventh, 2018.   The high school student reported the matter in the presence of her mother and a social worker which led to the arrest of Palmerston. He appeared before Magistrate Khadeen Palmer and was denied bail and remanded into custody at the Belize Central Prison until May third, 2019.