SENIOR Magistrate Leron Daly on Friday, remanded Okele Chester to prison for ill-treating her two-year-old daughter by allegedly burning the child to the buttock with a hot spoon.
Chester, 21, of James Street, Albouystown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Particulars of the charge state that Chester on May 27, 2019, at James Street, Albouystown, wilfully ill-treated her two-year-old daughter by causing injuries to her head and buttock.
Police Prosecutor Christopher Morris strongly opposed bail for the young mother and told the court that the child received serious injuries.

“I did not wilfully make my child get burn,” Chester interjected, as he spoke roughly to the magistrate

Magistrate Daly upheld the prosecutor’s objections and remanded Chester to prison until June 21, 2019.

According to reports, on the day in question Chester was at home frying plantains while talking on her cellphone, when Her toddler came and tugged on her dress for attention and food. The young mother reportedly became annoyed over the child’s behaviour and accidentally dropped her cellphone. She then allegedly slapped the child and slammed her onto the bed; she became even more annoyed when she tried to turn on her phone but it failed to come on

Enraged, the woman used the same spoon with which she was frying the plantains and placed in on her daughter’s buttock. The child’s father arrived home, saw the burn marks and took the child to the hospital; Chester was subsequently arrested and charged.