The St Catherine man who allegedly raped two stepsisters — several times on several occasions while their now-convicted guardian watched — is being hunted by detectives for his day in court.

The suspect, known only at this time as Shawn or King, was reportedly the “friend” of the 44-year-old St Catherine-based taxi driver who was on Tuesday slapped with an accumulated 100 years prison sentence for raping and trafficking the girls, as well as for raping an underage neighbour during the same period of time. The sentences will, however, run concurrently, making it so that he will serve the longest of the lot — 33 years and eight months behind bars — before he can apply for parole.

The convicted father had alleged in a caution statement following his arrest last year, that he had approached King to help him as he needed money to assist him with his legal fees in relation to the rape charges brought by his teen neighbour.

According to the father, King engaged in sex acts with the young girls at his home in a St Catherine community and also at the girls’ home.

The disgraced father, when asked during a question and answer session how he had benefited from exploiting his daughters, said: “Well, I was supposed to, but I never get pay. The thing is, when me go see them, him say nuh bother cuss, mi a go help yuh and yuh lawyer fee, but him never dweet.”

The taxi driver, who was sentenced by Supreme Court judge Justice Bertram Morrison on Tuesday in the Home Circuit Court, had been charged for rape, sex with a person under 16, incest, causing the involvement of a child in pornography, producing child pornography, and trafficking in persons on a 15-count indictment in relation to his daughter and stepdaughter.

He pleaded guilty on February 14 this year to those charges, but maintained that he was innocent of the charges brought by his neighbour.

According to the allegations, which were read out in court for the first time on Tuesday — because the convicted man had avoided a trial by virtue of his guilty pleas — he transported the girls to a friend who would forcibly have intercourse with them while he, the father, watched. That individual had apparently offered to help pay the father’s legal fees in relation to the underage neighbour he had raped.

The taxi driver’s crimes came to light after the mother of his daughter saw a video he had sent to the child’s phone showing him having intercourse with their child. When the mother reported the matter to the police it was discovered that he had also been intimate with his stepdaughter, who said the man she called “daddy” had started having intercourse with her when she was in grade 5, beginning sometime between 2018 and 2019.

According to the evidence of his daughter, her father began having intercourse with her after her 12th birthday. She said on the first occasion when he approached her she told him it was wrong, but he insisted it was “okay” as they were related and forcibly had sex with her.

On other occasions she said the man she called father invited his friend to the house to have intercourse with her, in his bedroom in one instance.

While in the custody of the police, upon being told of the allegations against him and being cautioned, the taxi driver claimed that he had taken his stepdaughter’s virginity but said he was not sure he was the one who took his daughter’s innocence. He admitted that on several occasions he would have intercourse with the girls and would perform oral sex on them.

He claimed they would do the same to him and that he would videotape and share those incidents with them. He said that on several occasions he took the young girls to his friend for him to also abuse them sexually.

According to the allegations, he went as far as impersonating his daughter by using her phone to text schoolboys, inviting them to the house to engage in sex acts with her and her stepsister on account that the acts would be videotaped and sent to him. If this was not done, he would be upset. However, when the request was carried out he would collect money from the boys and the adult friend when he was involved.

The taxi operator, who pleaded guilty to all counts, was sentenced to 33 years and eight months on the charges of rape, grievous sexual assault, and sex with a person under 16; 15 years on the trafficking counts; 10 years for causing the involvement of a child in pornography and producing child pornography; 10 years on the incest counts; and three years on the assault occasioning bodily harm counts. Those sentences, which amount to just over 70 years, will run concurrently.

In the meantime, the police, in a release on Friday, said detectives assigned to the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) are urgently seeking information on King’s whereabouts.

They also urged the man to report to Spanish Town Police Station immediately.

The public can report sexual offences and child abuse by contacting CISOCA at 876-926-4079, Crime Stop at 311, the police emergency number 119, or by visiting the nearest police station.