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Mother jailed for burning daughter, 9
A 31-year-old mother, who faced the court for heating a knife sharpener and burning her nine-year-old daughter on her face
Patricia Pashur
and body, was yesterday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
Patricia Pashur, a hairdresser of East La Penitence, Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond, charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm to her daughter (nine at the time). The incident took place on January 5, 2013 at Norton and Camp Streets.
Pashur, the Prosecutor said, claimed that the little girl had stolen $1000. Despite the child’s denial, the mother of three heated a knife sharpener on the stove and used it to inflict burn wounds on the child’s face and other parts of her body.
Lance Corporal Jomo Nichols noted that the burns had left permanent marks on the child.
According to court documents, the matter was reported by probation services and charges were subsequently laid against the mother.
Pashur was at first brought before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on January 22, 2013, to answer the charge. She had pleaded not guilty and a trial was subsequently conducted.
During the trial, the Prosecutor had brought forth several witnesses to support its case against the accused mother.
Nichols, in closing the Prosecution’s case, implored the court to consider that as a mother, Pashur had other ways and means to discipline her child, but she had resorted to cruelty. He asked that consideration be given to the fact that the injuries the child had sustained were severe.
Meanwhile, whilst leading her defence, the mother claimed that she was frustrated at the time.
In delivering her ruling, the Magistrate stated that she had considered several factors; one of which included that the mother at no point (neither while leading her defence nor during mitigation) displayed any remorse for the act.
Magistrate Chandan-Edmond noted too that based on a probation report previously prepared on the mother, if Pashur was incarcerated, the family was not at risk of disintegrating since the State had previously intervened and placed two of the children at the Sophia Drop In Centre and the other with Child Care and Protection Agency.
“A mother is supposed to love and protect her children. A mother is obligated to provide a safe environment for them. Children look to their parents to be embraced and receive love,” the Magistrate said. “A mother should not harm her own flesh.”
Magistrate Chandan-Edmond had showed the mother pictures of the injured child too and asked that she remembered the act. Pashur was then sentenced.
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