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Apr 04, 2013 News
After she was solicited for casual sex by an overseas-based Guyanese, who later refused to pay her for services rendered, an unemployed mother of two faced Magistrate Suanna Lovell on a simple larceny charge.
Renee Williams, 24, of Wismar, Linden, told the court yesterday that she had no other alternative than to steal the man’s belongings because she needed the cash to provide for her two children.
The charge before the court is that on March 16, 2012 at Gordon Street, Kitty , Williams stole from Jeffrey Moore, US$400, a gold chain valued $350,000, a Blackberry cellular phone and other articles. Williams claimed that her current circumstances resulted in her actions.
“I meet this man pun a Linden bus and he tell how he want sleep me, that he gon give me US$10 but I tell he ‘no’, so he say he gon pay me. So I go wid he cause is me alone; I is mother and father for my children— one is seven and de other one is three. I got children to mine so he carry me to de hotel and then we went to he house and he sleep wid me and when he done he ain’t want pay me. So when he drop to sleep I decide to take his things because he sleep wid me and didn’t want give me de money. I is not a prostitute yuh worship.”
After listening to the explanation, the presiding Magistrate sentenced Williams to 12 months’ imprisonment.
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