A Corentyne shopkeeper is now in police custody after she allegedly assaulted a nine-year-old girl who complained about purchasing hard tennis rolls from her.
According to the Guyana Police Force, the incident occurred at Number 50 Village, Corentyne.
The police said that the victim’s grandmother sent her to the grocery store to purchase a bag of tennis rolls. However, after returning home the grandmother asked her to return the tennis rolls since it was “hard”.
The child then took the tennis rolls back to the grocery store and reportedly told the shopkeeper that she must take the two hundred dollars and buy her coffin.
The police were told that the shopkeeper then held on to the child and dealt her six cuffs to her back.
After the child returned home and informed her grandmother about what had transpired, a police report was filed, leading to the female shopkeeper being arrested and an investigation being launched.
