Teen Speaks Out After Alleged Assault by Ex-Diplomat

“I find it so unfair for all he did to me. At no moment I gave him consent, and he just took over me, and I feel violated,” said the 16-year-old boy at the centre of a criminal case involving former Belizean diplomat and ex-mayor of Benque Viejo del Carmen, Said Badi Guerra.

The teenager told News 5, “I’m not feeling too well. I’m not happy with what happened this morning, because they gave Mr. Guerra bail. I ask for justice and demand justice. I also want all the teenagers to stand up and let the teenage boys get heard.”

Guerra, who once served as Belize’s ambassador to Cuba and is the brother of Cayo West Area Representative Miguel Guerra, has been charged with sexual assault, harm, and procuring defilement by threat. The charges stem from an alleged incident on July 14 involving the teen, who says he was lured to Guerra’s home after running an errand in Cayo.

“He was missing since six o’clock,” the minor’s mother told reporters. “I was calling and calling until he managed to answer me and he said ‘Mommy… I am at Benque.’ I said ‘What are you doing there?’ I know my son is going through something.”

“I feel really insecure,” said the teen. “What if I go back to school and he’s there, since he was one of my lecturers? That would just affect me mentally. For me to go back to school is not that easy, but I am trying to be strong since it’s my last year… Since he’s out there, I feel really insecure, because what if he goes back and tries to do the same or even worse?”

Guerra was granted bail of ten thousand dollars with two sureties.

He briefly addressed the media and denied the allegations. He said, “One thing I must make mention of is, I am being wrongly accuse of rape. It is not rape and I would like whosoever [that] put it up on the media that term because it is not rape.”