KINGSTON, Jamaica — Latoya Nugent, co-founder of the advocacy group Tambourine Army, has been arrested and charged under the Cybercrime Act.

Nugent, who is of a St Andrew address, was charged with three counts of using computer for malicious communication under section 9 (1) of the Cybercrimes Act of 2015.

She is scheduled to appear before the Half Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court today.

Nugent allegedly published information on social media maligning several individuals as sexual predators. Formal complaints were made to the police by some of the individuals, following which she was called into the Cybercrimes Unit of C-TOC with her attorney, but she refused.  

A warrant was subsequently prepared and she was arrested yesterday.

Nugent was among women who gathered at the Nazareth Moravian Church in Manchester in January to protest child sexual abuse after Moravian Minister Rupert Clarke was charged with having sex with a minor.

Media reports are that she used a tambourine to assault, then president of the Moravian Church Paul Gardner, who was subsequently charged with carnal abuse.

The Tambourine Army describes itself as a radical social justice movement committed to uprooting the scourge of sexual violence and safeguarding the rights of women and girls.