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Son allegedly assaults centenarian mother

Oct 13, 2009 News

A musician was in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, allegedly for unlawfully assaulting his mother, a centenarian. Appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, Desmond Atherly, 55, pleaded not guilty.
It is alleged that on Monday, October 5, Atherly, at his Duncan Street home dealt Millicent Sealey, his one hundred-and-three-year-old mother, some cuffs and slaps.
Two neighbours who reportedly witnessed the assault on the elderly woman, told the court that they would provide food daily for the senile woman.
“On this particular day we went over to her house to give her some food. However, we didn’t locate her in the house. We later found her across the street in front of the house,” one of the witnesses told the court.
The two neighbours added that the aged woman’s son was sleeping at the time, when he was informed that his mother had ventured into the street he ran and dragged her into the house. He then proceeded to cuff the woman about the abdomen.
Attorney-at-law, Leslie Sobers, who represented the defendant, said that the two neighbours are nosey and are being misled by their assumptions.
“What the court is hearing today are all allegations, if this aged woman could have walked across the street, she sure could have walked to the police station and file her complaint, if she was indeed suffering at the hands of her son,” he added.
The neighbours were adamant and proclaimed their pity for the old woman. They further related to the court, an incident where the defendant tied her to her wheel chair and beat her.
“It seems like he doesn’t want the poor lady to go anywhere or do anything. If she does, he gets very annoyed,” one of the neighbours said.
The magistrate remanded the defendant to prison and ordered him to make his next court appearance on October 14.

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