For attacking one another, two mothers received one-week prison sentences.
Senior Magistrate Leron Daly sentenced 29-year-old mother of three Jennifer Validen and mother-of-one Leandra Myers to prison last Friday.
The two were accused of attacking each other and using threatening language towards each other when they virtually appeared before the Magistrate at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
They pleaded guilty to the charges and had no legal representation.
This publication understands that Validen reported Myers to the Police for causing damage to her motor car, which led to the two ladies becoming embroiled in a legal dispute.
Validen said that Myers had threatened to “throw me over the rail” while she was present at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on October 13 for the damage to property case.
According to Myers, Validen instructed her to “plan yuh funeral”. As a result, they attacked one another, and then they went to the Brickdam Police Station and filed reports against one another.
Magistrate Daly spoke with Validen and Myers, informing them that their behaviour was inappropriate because they both have young children.
In the end, she sentenced both of them to serve one week in jail.
Myers and Validen pleaded with the Magistrate for another opportunity after the jail sentence was issued, but she refused, saying they needed to learn their lesson.
Validen has run afoul of the law on previous occasions. She was accused of trying to kill someone in January 2022, together with three of her friends after dousing a woman in acid.
It is alleged that on January 21, 2022, at Princes Street, Georgetown, they caused grievous bodily harm to 25-year-old Renesha Maxwell of West Ruimveldt, with intent to commit murder.
It was previously reported that Maxwell had taken a taxi from Leopold Street, Georgetown, and as she was travelling in the car, she observed another car following behind.
With this realisation, she reportedly told the driver to stop, and as soon as the car stopped, Validen and three of her friends exited the trailing car and approached her.
One of them, reportedly Validen, then threw a liquid substance on her, after which she immediately felt a burning sensation about her body and began to scream.
She was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where she was seen, treated, and later admitted with burns to her back and left hand.
The court prosecutor had informed the court that at one point the accused women and Maxwell were all friends but “something went wrong amongst them”.
Following the incident, the Police had issued a wanted bulletin for the four women who, accompanied by their lawyers, later surrendered at the Ruimveldt Police Station.
