Latest update November 21st, 2024 1:00 AM
Court orders probation report on mom convicted of killing her children
Jabarie Cadogan
Hodaceia Cadogan
Sentencing for Hofosawa Rutherford, who was convicted on Thursday for killing her two children, has been deferred until April 9, when a probation report will be presented to the court.
Following Rutherford being found guilty on two counts of manslaughter for killing her children, 16 month-old Jabarie Cadogan Jr. and four year-old Hodaceia Cadogan on March 27, 2014, trial Judge Navindra Singh, had on Thursday, adjourned sentencing for the woman until yesterday.
This was after her Attorney-at-Law Adrian Thompson requested that she be taken for medical treatment after she crashed to the floor at the announcement of the verdicts by the jury foreman. In the circumstances, Justice Singh obliged the lawyer’s request and the matter was put off to yesterday for sentencing.
However, when Rutherford appeared in court yesterday, she requested a probation report.
Hofosawa Rutherford
Rutherford, 25, former of Supply, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, who also begged for leniency and mercy, was granted her request for the report by the judge.
The convicted killer begged the judge to take off the time she had spent on remand pending trial. Her lawyer informed the court that
ever since her incarceration, Rutherford, on several occasions, has been seeing by a psychiatrist. On Wednesday, in an unsworn statement, Rutherford told the court that she loved her children very much. In fact, Rutherford, who wept uncontrollably, told the court that she is still traumatized by the death of her children, both of whom she gave tablets she had bought to treat their cold.
According to the woman, she was treated unfairly by police ranks, since they all presumed that she had poisoned the children. But her story was discredited by that of Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh, who confirmed that the children died of pesticide poisoning.
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