A security guard was fined and bonded to keep the peace on Monday after she admitted to using abusive language toward her son’s girlfriend.
Dawn Forde, 50, admitted to the crime as well as disorderly behaviour at a police outpost when she appeared before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at a Georgetown court.
The charge against her states that on June 8, at Laing Avenue, George-town, she used abusive language toward Tammia Darrell. It is also alleged that she behaved disorderly while at the East Ruim-veldt Police Outpost on that same date. She admitted to both charges but asked to explain herself to the court.
The prosecutor address-ed the court first and stated that on the day in question, Forde was arrested by police after the two women had a misunderstanding and Forde used certain language toward Darrell. She was taken to the outpost, where she behaved disorderly although the police spoke to her several times about her behaviour.
Forde, a mother of seven, told the court that she cursed the young woman because she was frustrated. She explained that the woman and her son are always on and off and that she had been sitting at her residence smoking a cigarette when she was told that the police were outside and they had come to her. She said that she told the police that they would have to wait until she was done with her cigarette and she also cursed the woman because she was upset that she had brought the police to her home. She said she has had to deal with the relationship between her son and the woman and she never took the police to the woman’s home. She then asked why the woman was taking the police to her home. She added that she has been frustrated and that when she was taken to the Police Outpost, the police told her that she had been raising her voice and it was causing persons to gather.
The Magistrate reprimanded Forde for her behaviour and said that she is a security guard and ought to know better. She then fined her $10,000 for the abusive language charge and placed her on a bond to keep the peace for one year.
