The sus­pect at the heart of a sex­u­al in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a mi­nor, which re­port­ed­ly oc­curred in the of­fice of Ca­roni East MP Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Dr Rishad Seecher­an, has been charged with eight of­fences.

The sus­pect, who was ar­rest­ed on Ju­ly 31 by of­fi­cials of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment (SVD), was grant­ed bail in the sum of $750,000 with sure­ty.

The mat­ter at­tract­ed sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic at­ten­tion af­ter it was high­light­ed by the vic­tim’s fa­ther two weeks ago on so­cial me­dia.