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A taxi dri­ver from San Juan has been sen­tenced to sev­en years in prison af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed of rap­ing a 14-year-old girl over a decade ago.

Nigel Tou­s­saint was con­vict­ed of two charges of hav­ing sex with a mi­nor and bug­gery at the end of his judge-alone tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Kathy-Ann Wa­ter­man-Latchoo, last Mon­day, and was sen­tenced on Tues­day.

Tou­s­saint was ac­cused of at­tack­ing the teen on two oc­ca­sions dur­ing the Car­ni­val sea­son in Feb­ru­ary 2012.