Rape Allegation by Female Minor in Ladyville

There is a disturbing report of rape coming out of Ladyville tonight. A seventeen-year-old female is claiming that she was out socialising with a group of persons and ended up at Eruptions Nightclub. While the minor was not to be at the nightclub, she says that at some point, she lost consciousness and woke up in the nude in a vehicle parked off the Old Northern Highway.  Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch, Assistant Commissioner of Police Alden Dawson says that the alleged perpetrator, a twenty-five-year-old resident from Ladyville, has since been charged. ACP Dawson also says that the nightclub might very well see its liquor license suspended.

Alden Dawson

ACP Alden Dawson, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch, B.P.D.

“Sometime around seven a.m., Ladyville police received a report that a female minor was raped. We conducted an investigation where they learnt that the female minor attended a wake earlier that night – that would be Friday night – and eventually ended up at the Eruption Nightclub where she was drinking. Her claim is that after she had taken several drinks, she lost consciousness and was wakened in a different location. Police have conducted an investigation and have charged a Belizean male so far for the crime of rape.”

Reporter

“Can you saw how old the male was?”

ACP Alden Dawson

“The male is twenty-five years old.”

Reporter

“And was he along with her when they went out?”

ACP Alden Dawson

“Well she only claims that she was with some friends. But the investigation led us to that male person as being the person who has committed the crime. So far he has been cooperative, hence the reason he has been charged for the crime of rape.”

Duane Moody

“Is there an investigation taking place into why that minor was inside that club?”

ACP Alden Dawson

“Yes we are dealing with that matter as we speak. The Ladyville police is at Eruptions Nightclub at this time retrieving the footage. If that’s the case that there was a minor, we will then be requesting to the Liquor License Board to have their license suspended as was done in Hopkins with the Wabinaha Nightclub where two persons were killed. There were some minors in that club as well.”

Michael Llewellyn Flowers

This afternoon, twenty-five-year-old Michael Llewellyn Flowers was arraigned in the Belize City magistrate’s court for a single charge of rape. But it appears to be a case of “she says rape, while he says that it was consensual sex.”  The maintenance worker from Ladyville was unrepresented in court and due to the nature of the offense, bail could not be granted and he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison until December twenty-ninth. Flowers is not denying having sexual intercourse with the seventeen-year-old female and claims that it was consensual.