ALTHOUGH THE Court of Appeal found the crimes of a 42-year-old child serial rapist distasteful, the justices ruled that his 30-year prison sentence should be reduced to 20 years.
Barrington Keslow, steelworker, of 2 East Water Street, Kingston 2, who has 11 previous convictions, six of which are for sexual offences, had filed an appeal on his latest conviction on grounds that his sentence was manifestly excessive.
Keslow had pleaded guilty in July 2002 to four counts of molesting schoolgirls some of whom were 12 years old. He was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment at hard labour for the crime which he committed in November 2000.
BAD RECORD
Keslow had just returned from prison, where he spent seven years following his conviction in 1995 for carnal abuse.
Attorney-at-law Alonzo Man-ning in pleading yesterday with Justices Ian Forte, president of the Court of Appeal, Seymour Panton and Howard Cooke (acting) to reduce the sentence, said Keslow was a sick man who lived in a sick society.
The girls reported that on different occasions, they were walking on Windward Road in Kingston on their way from school when Keslow told them he had a gun.
Keslow pleaded guilty to charges of rape, attempted rape and indecent assault when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court in July 2002.
