St. Croix’s Jacoy Kentish Allegedly Raped 16-Year-Old Girl @ Croixville Apartments

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FREDERIKSTED — A St. Croix teenager is accused of raping a minor in Grove Place on Wednesday.

Jacoy Q. Kentish, 18, was arrested after 1:17 p.m. on Wednesday and charged with first-degree rape, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Kentish allegedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl at Croixville Apartments in Frederiksted, according to the VIPD.

Unable to post the $75,000 bail, Kentish was remanded to the Bureau of Corrections Detention Center pending an advice-of-rights hearing.

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John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.