A Corporate Area Justice of the Peace who has been charged with carnal abuse was granted $500,000 bail in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Resident Magistrate Georgiana Fraser ordered that the accused surrender his travel documents and report to the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse three times for the week.

He is to return to court on January 31, when the matter will be mentioned as the file is incomplete.

Allegations are that between March and April 2008, the complainant who was 13 years old at the time, met the accused in downtown, Kingston and went to his house. It is further alleged that while there, he had sexual intercourse with her which resulted in the complainant becoming pregnant and giving birth to a child in 2009.

It is reported that the accused was arrested last week after he could not be located for some time, despite many visits by police officers to his apartment.