Mother bursts head of teen accused of beating up her daughter

A woman who used a stone to burst the head of a 14-year-old girl who was engaged in a fight with her daughter is to know her fate on May 10.

The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of the minors involved, also gave her daughter a piece of board to hit the child. The parent pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last Thursday.

The court heard that on February 11, about 5 p.m., the complainant, a 14-year-old, went to a shop where her daughter was also present. The complainant indicated that the defendant's daughter stepped on her foot, to which she said "Likkle girl, yuh nuh see yuh step pon me foot."

The accused woman's daughter reportedly hissed her teeth and walked away, but the complainant got angry and hit her. A fight ensued between the children, both teenagers.

The teen, whose mother is now in trouble, went home and told her mother of the incident. The adult, in turn, gave her daughter a piece of board to attack complainant. She also took a stone and threw it in the back of the 14-year-old's head, which caused a wound that bled.

The defendant, sharing her account of the incident, said she gave her daughter $140 to purchase a patty at the nearby shop, when moments after her daughter ran into their house informing her that she was involved in a fight.

"I went to the front and tek up a piece of board and tell her lick dem back because all the while dem a tek set pon her. Me nah tell yuh no lie, Your Honour, cause it nuh mek nuh sense," the mother revealed.

"So let me ask you something, you don't feel you could talk to her [the complainant] mother? You tell your child to tek up board, then supposed she [the complainant's mother] say, they are coming with board, so we have to come bigger than that, we have to come with metal. Who are the adults in the room? You cannot be behaving like this," Senior Parish Judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague stressed.

The judge said that while she understands the rage a parent feels when their child is involved in conflict with someone else, there are specific ways to resolve a situation.

The matter was then referred to restorative justice and an order made that the parents are to attend the sessions as well.