By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Court Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A WOMAN was granted a conditional discharge in Magistrate’s Court yesterday after admitting to assaulting the father of her child with a car.
Aalehya Nixon, 22, stood before Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on charges of assault and assault with a dangerous instrument.
On September 2 in New Providence, Nixon is said to have assaulted her child’s father, Chequan Saunders, on three occasions that day. Twice at Saunders’ residence where Nixon threw a glass at him during an argument before assaulting him with her vehicle as she attempted to leave.
The defendant is also said to have approached Saunders in her car near Burger King on Carmichael Road as he was on the way to the police station.
In court, Nixon pleaded guilty to the charges with explanation. She told the court that while there was an argument between her and her husband over the living arrangements for their child, she claims he shoved her into her car.
Nixon further said that as she tried to drive away from Saunders’s residence he went in front of the car as she tried to pull off. She also claimed that she was on the way to file a complaint against Saunders at a police station, when she passed him at the Burger King, causing him to become alarmed and file his own claims first.
Although the magistrate called into question how Nixon claims that Saunders beat her to the station on foot, she still granted the defendant a conditional discharge.
Nixon was bound to keep the peace for six months or risk a $250 fine or one month in prison.
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