Alleged Child abductor gets bail at High Court

ALLEGED child abductor Bibi Hussain, called Debbie, who had previously been remanded to the country’s lone female penitentiary in New Amsterdam after being charged with abducting a nine-day-old baby, was granted $300,000 bail after she successfully petitioned Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Berbice High Court through her attorney Rodwel Jugmohan, because she had been denied her pre-trial liberty at the lower court.Jugmohan argued that the offence which his client faces is bailable, and failure to grant her bail constituted a breach of her constitutional rights.

State Counsel Ms Renita Singh had objected to bail being granted Hussain on grounds that the offence for which she has been charged is serious in nature, and that the petitioner lives at Mahdia, a small community in the Potaro-Siparuni community of Region Eight.

On May 16, the accused had allegedly visited and befriended Mc Lean at the Skeldon Hospital when McLean was a patient there. Subsequent visits made at Mc Lean’s home at Number 68 Village Corentyne resulted in the accused offering to take Mc Lean and the baby boy shopping in a bid to celebrate the child’s ninth day.

But on May 24, 2014, Hussain allegedly abducted Sandra Mc Lean’s baby boy with intent to deprive Mc Lean of her baby. Hussain had reportedly disappeared with the baby after assuring Mc Lean that she would take care of him whilst Mc Lean went to purchase fish on Hussain’s behalf.

Nine days later, the police, acting on information, found Hussain and the baby at a house at Chesney Front Village in Albion, Corentyne, where she was pretending that she had given birth to the child.

(With Jeune Bailey Vankeric)