$3,500 fine for breaching Protection Order
By LAUREL V WILLIAMS Wednesday, October 31 2012
ALERTED
by the loud screams of his four-year-old daughter, who moments earlier
was scolded by her mother, a man began making death threats to the
woman. The man, Keron Wilson, was yesterday fined $3,500 by a
Port-of-Spain magistrate before whom he appeared for breaching a
protection order, by using threatening language.
Wilson
pleaded guilty when he appeared before Magistrate Cheron Raphael, in
the Third Court, to answer the charge which occurred on Monday last at
Chafford Court in Port-of-Spain.
Court prosecutor, Sgt Gale Charles, told the court that the mother was scolding the child when Wilson approached her and said, “I will cuff you in the face. I will rip you apart. When you come downstairs in the yard, I will deal with you. I will kill you, it is just timing.” The prosecutor noted on June 30 last, the woman had obtained a protection order against Wilson.
Police officers were contacted and when told of the report, Wilson admitted he had “stepped in” because the mother was beating the child.
Yesterday Wilson, who was unrepresented by counsel, explained to the magistrate, he was on his way to watch wrestling on television when he heard the loud screams of his daughter. Wilson said when he called out to the child, he saw a hand print on her chest. The child, he added, told him her mother had slapped her in the chest. He denied making any threats about killing the mother.
“(Before this incident) I had spent $250 for chest pains my child was having. This is the reason why I breach the order. I did ask her if she would like someone put a hand print on her chest,” Wilson said to Raphael.
The prosecutor denied there was any marks on the child’s chest when police officers visited the scene. She noted however the mother was correcting the child by hitting her.
Prosecutor Charles further noted that often such incidents go to another level. The fact a protection order was taken out against Wilson spoke volumes, she added.
Raphael suggested to Wilson that he learn to control himself, and if he felt the mother was being too harsh with their child, then he should report it to police.
After fining him $3,500, the magistrate noted: “Breaching a protection order is serious business.” She gave him three months to pay the fine. In default he would serve nine months, hard labour, in prison.
Court prosecutor, Sgt Gale Charles, told the court that the mother was scolding the child when Wilson approached her and said, “I will cuff you in the face. I will rip you apart. When you come downstairs in the yard, I will deal with you. I will kill you, it is just timing.” The prosecutor noted on June 30 last, the woman had obtained a protection order against Wilson.
Police officers were contacted and when told of the report, Wilson admitted he had “stepped in” because the mother was beating the child.
Yesterday Wilson, who was unrepresented by counsel, explained to the magistrate, he was on his way to watch wrestling on television when he heard the loud screams of his daughter. Wilson said when he called out to the child, he saw a hand print on her chest. The child, he added, told him her mother had slapped her in the chest. He denied making any threats about killing the mother.
“(Before this incident) I had spent $250 for chest pains my child was having. This is the reason why I breach the order. I did ask her if she would like someone put a hand print on her chest,” Wilson said to Raphael.
The prosecutor denied there was any marks on the child’s chest when police officers visited the scene. She noted however the mother was correcting the child by hitting her.
Prosecutor Charles further noted that often such incidents go to another level. The fact a protection order was taken out against Wilson spoke volumes, she added.
Raphael suggested to Wilson that he learn to control himself, and if he felt the mother was being too harsh with their child, then he should report it to police.
After fining him $3,500, the magistrate noted: “Breaching a protection order is serious business.” She gave him three months to pay the fine. In default he would serve nine months, hard labour, in prison.
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