Two sisters and their daughters appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with assaulting each other.
The sisters were placed on self bail and their daughters were each placed on $15,000 bail.
It is alleged that on January 19 the four women had verbal and physical confrontations.
Juliet Alexander, 42, of 109 D’Andrade Street, Newtown Kitty pleaded not guilty. Her daughter Tamika Samuels, 19, of the same address pleaded guilty with explanation to the charge of assaulting Melinda Cummings and not guilty to the charge of assaulting Tashana Da Silva.
According to Alexander, on the day in question she and Samuels went to her mother’s house to take some money. Alexander said she did not go inside because she and her sister Jacqueline Da Silva were not on speaking terms. She instead sent Samuels with the money. Alexander told the court that five minutes later she heard the raised voices of her niece Melinda Cummings and Samuels.
She said she went to investigate and asked Da Silva, who was in the midst of the fight what was happening. She said the woman replied by verbally abusing her and ordering her out of the house. To this, Alexander said, she told Da Silva that it was their mother’s house and she wouldn’t leave. Da Silva then grabbed her, she said, and they began scuffling. Samuels, who was charged with assaulting her cousins Cummings and Tashana Da Silva said Cummings was dating her ex-boyfriend. According to Samuels, her ex-boyfriend still spoke to her and took her things. She said whenever he did so, he would tell Cummings and this would annoy her. Samuels explained to the court, that on the day in question it was Cummings who initiated the confrontation. Based on this explanation Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Samuels.
With regard to her assaulting Tashana Da Silva, Samuels said she did nothing of the sort. The pregnant Tashana Da Silva, she said, was sitting on the stairway for the entire duration of the fight and according to Samuels there are witnesses to this fact.
However, attorney-at-law Rexford Jackson who represented Cummings and the two Da Silvas told the court that as a result of Samuels pushing his client down she may face premature birth. Jackson told the court that he believed the matter could be resolved since the parties involved were all closely related.
The matter continues on February 22 in Court One.
