A 33-year-old woman charged with child cru­el­ty was grant­ed $60,000 bail when she ap­peared be­fore Jus­tice of the Peace, Stephen Young, on Jan­u­ary 22nd. She is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate on Feb­ru­ary 11th, 2022, to an­swer to the charge.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, a rel­a­tive of the vic­tim told po­lice that the mi­nor was at home with her moth­er, who al­leged­ly be­came up­set when the child told her fa­ther that she had not eat­en for two days.

The woman al­leged­ly grabbed the girl by her neck caus­ing bruis­es. She then at­tempt­ed to hit the child with a bench which re­sult­ed in the child sus­tain­ing bruis­es on her hand.

PC Kiel Cas­tle of the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion con­duct­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter, which re­sult­ed in the ar­rest and sub­se­quent charge of the 33-year-old un­em­ployed woman with the of­fence of Cru­el­ty to a Child.
In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by W/Supt. (Ag.) Claire Guy-Al­leyne, ASP (Ag.) Roberts, In­sp. (Ag.) Lopez, Sgt. (Ag.) Ban­warie and W/Cpl (Ag.) Pe­ters-Wil­son.