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Jan 20, 2011 News
A 14-year-old Linden resident will spend the next two years at the New Opportunity Corps. The sentencing was imposed by Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty, who confessed to having difficulties trying to understand the teenager’s behaviour.
The teenager, who hails from Linden, was sentenced at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s court, yesterday, on a conviction of break and enter and larceny. She pleaded guilty.
She had gone to the coast to visit her mother, Simone Christiani, at Charity over the holidays,
According to a police report, on Monday, at Anna Regina, the teenager entered the dwelling house of Bibi Zameena Sharief and stole one knife, a pair of pliers, two shoulder bags, four ladies blouses, three jeans, two gold earrings, one chain, one artificial chain, earrings and bangles, two jars of cream, two bottles of cologne, two pairs of shoes, one tub of Avon powder and one eye pencil.
When asked to explain why she stole the items, she told the Magistrate that she did not know. She then admitted to only stealing the clothing, accessories and shoes, all of which the police have since recovered.
The teenager’s mother, who was present in court, forcing back tears, told the Magistrate that she too cannot explain her daughter’s behaviour.
According to Mrs. Christiani, on the day in question, her daughter left her home at Charity and ventured needlessly to Anna Regina.
The woman said the girl eventually walked through Sharief’s partially open door and committed the act.
“Certain times she does leave home and commit similar cats and when I question her she does say she don’t know,” Christiani explained.
Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty told the child that she could have been injured walking into somebody else’s house.”
And, Magistrate Mc Gusty placed 45-year-old, Kenrick Sookram, a\k Boyo of Queenstown Village, Essequibo Coast, on $40,000 bail also for break and enter and larceny.
According to a police report, between January 16 and January 17, Sookram, a labourer, broke into the dwelling house of David Smart and stole $64,550 and $29,201 of ground provision and groceries.
The defendant, who entered a not guilty plea, further explained to the court that he was at work on the day in question. “Anything happen in Queenstown is either me or me brother.”
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