Sex Offender’s Brother Speaks Out

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The brother of a convicted sex offender, who died days after his release from prison was made public, says his brother was a monster, but he says he believes how he turned out wasn’t all his fault.

Jared Higgs is on the story.

Ronald Scott, 58, gives a frank assessment of his brother, 55-year-old Alden Scott, who was released from prison, Friday.

Officials held a press conference, announcing his status as a registered sex offender.

According to the older brother, his brother died in hospital this morning after he was found bleeding from the nose through a dirt road.

Press Liaison Officer, Superintendent Audley Peters confirming as much saying Alden Scott was found on a track road in Yellow Elder, around 2am Saturday, suffering from apparent injuries.

Peters says Scott was taken to hospital by ambulance and died Wednesday morning.

Now officers will wait the results of an autopsy to determine Scott’s cause of death.

Scott, who lives in Grand Bahama, tells Our News his brother was expelled from school at the age of 10 for stabbing a teacher with a protractor from a geometry set. He says their father then asked him what he planned to do with his life now that his schooling days were done, at the age of 10. The older brother says that was too young an age to neglect him.

Our News spoke to Scott, a mechanic with six children, over Zoom. He says at 13, his brother wound up on the maximum security wing of the prison as part of a group of seven who were charged with murder and armed robbery.

It was just one of many stints behind bars.

Members of the public have called on government to do more to ensure that perpetrators of sex crimes are punished for their acts.

The enforcement of a Sex Offenders Registry, which Scott was on, has been hailed as a step in the right direction.

The 55-year-old last went to prison at the start of 2021 after he admitted to indecently assaulting a nine-year-old girl. Prior to that he served six years for raping a 17-year-old girl.

And while he refers to his brother as a monster, the older Scott brother doesn’t think he bears the full blame.