Mom charged with child abandonment

The accused woman of Mt Pleasant Road, Carolina Village appeared before Magistrate Siumongal Ramsaran in the Couva courthouse to answer the charge laid by WPC Henry of the Couva CID.

The charge was indictable and so the accused mother was not called upon to plead. Residents reported to Couva police that on several occasions, the accused left her child alone overnight in a house. On Tuesday at about 11 pm, Sgt Ali together with PC Girwar, WPC Henry and others went to the house where they found the child.

At the time, the child who is a primary school student was asleep, alone in the house. It was alleged that the mother went to work at a night club in the Penal district.

Yesterday, the court instructed the child to be handed over to the care and custody of the Children’s Authority. Magistrate Ramsaran granted the woman $10,000 own bail and adjourned the case to August 15.