ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A police officer who was found guilty of indecent assault on a minor in the Magistrate’s Court on May 29, 2024, is to be sentenced on November 27, 2024.

Walter Harris was found guilty of having two sexual encounters with the child.

During the trial, the court heard that there was a line of contact between the complainant and the police officer in 2014 as they shared a filial relationship. The said contact continued into July 2015 and on a day unknown the child had accompanied the police officer to one of the sister islands to visit with a family friend.

On that occasion, the accused had invited the child to accompany him to the police station on that island where he engaged in an inappropriate sexual manner with the child.

According to the court, later in that said month there was yet another inappropriate sexual contact with the child. In this instance the accused allegedly had the child accompany him to a hotel where he interacted with the child in a sexually inappropriate manner.