Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter
WITH
RESIDENT Magistrate Martin Gayle last Friday ordering the prosecution to contact
the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to have Donovan Jones and
his co-accused face trial quickly, the former deacon of the Church Dayton Diamond
Ridge is on his way to the Circuit Court.
Jones, 46, is facing multiple sexual molestation charges, including carnal abuse arising from the case involving a 14-year-old schoolgirl.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and his attorney Paul Beswick has been unable to convince the four judges he has been before to offer bail.
Today, the former deacon, and co-accused James Rodgers, 18, will face the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court and it is likely that it will be their last visit in that jurisdiction.
Rodgers, who has also pleaded not guilty, had his $500,000 bail extended until today.
Jones and Rodgers are a part of a ring of four slapped with various sexual assault charges. The others, Shamar Morgan, 18, and a 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent assault each. They are scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.
