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Prison officer found guilty of beating up lad

Apr 13, 2014 News

A Prison Officer escaped being placed in the same institution that he is charged to supervise after being found guilty on a charge of assaulting a teen with a piece of wire.
Prison Officer, Erwin Mentore, a training officer attached to the New Amsterdam Prison was however placed on a bond to keep the peace for six months after he was found guilty. He was also ordered to pay $10,000 cost.
The penalty was instituted by Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
The matter occurred around 19:00 hrs on October 10, 2013. The teen, David Van Keric, was standing with friends at Lot 49 Stanleytown , New Amsterdam, when the defendant exited a vehicle and asked  ‘Who went through 54’, [referring to Lot 54 Stanleytown].
After not getting a positive response, he went into the trunk of his motor car and removed what the complainant described as a ‘wire whip’, and dealt him a lash on his left foot causing him injuries in the process.
The matter was reported to the Central Police Station where a report was lodged and the teen subsequently taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where a medical report was issued.
A confrontation between the parties was subsequently held by the police. The Prison Officer in his explanation stated that he was at the Prison Officers’ Sports Club at Penitentiary Walk, New Amsterdam, when his mother telephoned him to complain that ‘some boys were throwing bricks on her house’.
He responded by driving to Stanleytown, where he saw a group of boys standing at Lot 49 Stanleytown where the incident occurred. He, however denied lashing the complainant with a ‘wire whip’, but confessed that it was a belt he used instead.
Mentore, in a sworn statement also stated that he had responded to a telephone call from his mother who claimed that some boys were ‘kicking down her front door’.
He further denied that a confrontation was held, but instead, was told by the police that he would be charged criminally.
The Prison Officer was unrepresented during the trial.

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