Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown yesterday transferred the much-talked-about carnal abuse case against Constable Rushon Hamilton of the Harbour View Police Station to the Home Circuit Court, downtown Kingston.

The constable was charged with carnal abuse, indecent assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice after being accused of having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl on October 4.

Change her initial statement

An additional charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice was also levied against him after he was accused of attempting to get the teenager to change her initial statement made to the police, during the investigation of the sexual assault case.

When the matter was called up in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, RM Brown ordered that the charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice be adjourned sine die pending the outcome of the investigation.

The teenage complainant in the case was reportedly abducted from her home two weeks after the matter was reported to the police in October. She was taken while she stood at her gate, and has not been seen since.