Man fined for assaulting mother of his children
JOEL Abrams (no address given) was fined $15,000 with the alternative of 10 days imprisonment yesterday, for assaulting the mother of his children. In another domestic violence case, he pleaded guilty, before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, to having unlawfully assaulted Petula Thomas, on June 23.
Police Corporal Simone Payne, prosecuting, said the defendant and the virtual complainant had shared a relationship and the two have children together.
The prosecutor said, that day, the woman was talking to another man with whom she also has children and, after Abrams called her, the two had an argument during which he slapped her several times.
In his version of what transpired, Abrams told the court that he was in Robb Street, Georgetown, when he saw Thomas and told her she is a ‘wicked woman’ to her children.
He claimed that, because he accused her of allowing her minor child to be intimate with an adult male, she became annoyed and verbally abused him.
He said the child he referred to is not his but he took care of the 14-year-old since she was two years and she is now pregnant.
Abrams said he tried to remonstrate with the virtual complainant about what she is encouraging but she cursed him and pointed her fingers in his face, causing him to slap her.
The man, shedding tears, said he knows that what he did is not the right thing and begged the court to have mercy on him.
The magistrate advised Abrams that he should have reported the matter to the relevant authorities rather than take things into his own hands.
However, the magistrate instructed a probation officer, who was on duty in court, to investigate the circumstances involving the girl.