Neighbour annoyed with stealing kids

A Corporate Area woman, who had grown frustrated with her neighbour's children breaking into her home and stealing her personal items, is to be sentenced to unlawful wounding.

The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of the children involved, said the children of the complainant regularly break into her house and steal things. She said that despite urging the mother to do something about it, the stealing continued.

"Her children constantly coming in my house and me tired fi talk to her bout it. I see her daughter in my slippers and I asked her if she going pay for it and she gi me bere attitude," related the defendant.

She said that she made multiple reports to the police, who informed her that they could not arrest the children, because them underage.

The Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court heard on Wednesday that matters took a drastic turn when the householder returned home and saw the complainant's children in her house.

"Me a talk to her and her brother start rile up pon me. Him fling stone affa me and me fling back a rum bottle affa him but it catch her [the complainant]," the accused woman told the court.

She pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful wounding before Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks. The judge requested a social enquiry report and adjourned the matter until May when the accused woman is expected to be sentenced.