Schoolgirl to be tried as adult

Apr 24, 2009 News

A teacher at the East Ruimveldt Secondary School has described a 17-year-old girl who reportedly stabbed her stepfather to death as an unsettled individual.
The teen is being held at the Beterverwagting Police Station lock-ups awaiting her day in court for the killing of 54-year-old Glendon Scipio, which occurred during a heated row at their Plaisance home on Wednesday night.

She was scheduled to write the CSEC examinations within another few weeks.
A teacher at the school the child attended said that staff members were surprised that she would have been involved in something like this.
“She was a little disruptive and unsettled but not overly violent,” the teacher said.
This newspaper was told that the teenager had to be spoken to on a few occasions by her teachers for behaviour that was unbecoming, but nothing could have prepared them for the news that she killed her stepfather.

According to the teacher, as news of the incident spread around the school, everyone appeared muted and most were discussing it “under their breaths”.
Eyewitnesses suggested that the teenager was “pushed” by her stepfather, triggering her violent reaction.
Villagers were surprised at the incident, claiming that the dead man, who had only taken up residence at the house a few months ago, and the teen shared a history of animosity.
An eyewitness said that the argument that led to the stabbing started around 17:45 hours on Wednesday when the teenager arrived home from school.

According to the eyewitness, as the teenager was going up the stairs, Scipio confronted her and prevented her from entering the house.
A brief argument ensued and the teen left and sat on the stairs of a neighbour’s house.
The eyewitness explained that Scipio then went into the yard and the teenager seized the opportunity to go home.

However, she was again confronted by her stepfather and this time the argument became more heated.
“When she run upstairs, he run up behind she. The two of them started scuffling and she run in the house. He run in behind she and cuff she and she just pick up the knife and stab he,” one eyewitness said.
The teen’s mother, Esther Simon, who is still reeling from the shock of what transpired Wednesday night, painted another picture of her daughter.

Simon said that her daughter was always rude to her stepfather and that there were many altercations in the home because of her behaviour.
She said that she had to seek the services of Probation Officers to deal with her daughter.
“Is only about a month now she come back to live with me because of her behaviour. I talk to she, and she still continuing,” Simon said.

Judith Cummings, the teen’s aunt was even more outspoken about her behaviour.
Cummings told this newspaper that the teenager had no right to react to her stepfather in the manner that she did since it was Scipio who brought some stability to the home.
“Is that man who mind she. She father never contribute anything to her upbringing,” Cummings told Kaieteur News yesterday.

She described her niece as a rude individual who had been sent home from school for wounding a male student with a scissors and added that she had pulled a knife on her grandmother.
“Everybody blaming she mother for bringing the man into the house but my sister never had a good life until Scipio came around,” Cummings said.

The girl, who will be 18 in August, could appear in court as early as today and will be tried as an adult, according to a source close to the investigations.
Relatives said that Scipio will be buried next Tuesday.

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