By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MOTHER was ordered to attend counselling sessions after admitting beating her 11-year-old son with an extension cord last week.
The 32-year-old woman, whose name is being withheld to protect the minor’s identity, was charged with cruelty to children before Magistrate Algernon Allen, Jr.
On June 14, the defendant ordered her son to strip to his underwear; she beat him with a wire extension cord as he lay face down on her bed. After the victim reported the incident to his grandparents, they discovered injuries to his back and extremities.
After pleading guilty, the defendant was granted a conditional discharge. Under the terms of her release, she is expected to attend four months of anger management and parent counselling sessions.
She would face a $3,000 fine and a six-month prison sentence if she fails to complete the courses.
• A man was granted $3,000 bail after allegedly setting fire to a two-storey building in May, causing $33,114.58 worth of damage.
Alton McCurdy, 63, was charged with arson to a building. Allegedly, McCurdy intentionally set fire to a six-room, two-storey stone building belonging to Micheal Craig Roberts on May 11 in New Providence.
• A 20-year-old man is behind bars after being accused of an armed carjacking in the Stapledon Gardens area earlier this month.
Brandan Smith was charged with armed robbery, possession of an unlicensed firearm and possession of ammunition.
Around 9pm on June 2, Smith and a male accomplice armed with handguns allegedly approached Andron Williams outside a residence on Lancaster Lane and Christie Avenue. They stole his lavender 2014 Nissan March valued at $6,000.
Later that same day, police recovered the vehicle after it was abandoned at the eastern end of Arawak Cay.
Inside the car, police found a black Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol with the serial number erased, along with ten unfired rounds of 9mm ammunition.
This weapon is believed to have been used in the carjacking.
Smith was remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
• A man was sentenced to three years in prison after admitting to having two firearms last year.
Dorestin Odestin, 20, stood before Magistrate Shaka Serville, facing two counts of possession of an unlicensed firearm and two counts of possession of ammunition.
On August 22, 2020, in New Providence, Odestin was arrested after he was found with a black pistol with the serial number erased, along with three rounds of unfired 9mm ammunition.
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