Man acquitted from 17 year prison sentence for charges of sexual assault of minor

A man who had been incarcerated for 17 years for charges of sexual assault of a a minor was acquitted by the High Court yesterday.

The case of the assault emerged in 2020 after a minor accused their teacher of allegedly sexually assaulting them between 2019 and 2020. Additionally, a second incident involved another person alleged of sexual assault on the minor between 2014 and 2015, when the minor was 11 years old.