Alleged offences date back to 2008
A man’s appeared in court charged with carrying out three rapes and an indecent assault on a child.
Twenty-one-year-old Anthony Robert Collis, of Mona Street in Douglas, is also accused of procuring a child for gross indecency.
All of the offences are alleged to have been committed between 2008 and 2010.
Mr Collis appeared via live link from IOM Prison in Jurby before Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes.
There was no bail application, and he was remanded in custody to appear again on 26 February.
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