After a six-month saga that included several adjournments and accusations, the case against a woman who allegedly attacked a young student has finally reached a verdict: Guilty. On Monday the court handed down the decision which the victim’s mother, Molly Allen, had been agitating for ever since her daughter was beaten just before Jounen Kweyol festivities at her school. It was revealed that the assailant was the mother of a young boy who had been bullying the youngster for more than a year.
Despite the defendant’s denials, she was found culpable and ordered to pay one thousand dollars to the court and a further three thousand towards Allen’s costs. The embattled mother reflected on experience.
“It was positive and negative. Because when I look at it, everybody, they did not expect I would go so far. Everybody tried to change their story but no matter how you look at it the truth came through. Her lawyer tried to take the focus from my daughter and put it on me. The story from both her and her lawyer was I did something wrong. I should have never put it in the newspaper, I should have never put it out there and all these kinds of things. There were many times when the magistrate had to say come back to the point. This is about the child getting injured and that is what I really wanted. This is about the injuries.”
Allen was immediately asked to consider pursuing a civil suit, but after careful consideration she has decided against the action.
“When I sit down and I look at it, it doesn’t make sense. Ask yourself, what will you get out of it? Because from day one the government had no interest, the government don’t even care. The ministry is about their own agenda. I did it all the time by myself. The main thing is that she was found guilty of causing my child’s injuries. I asked my daughter how she feels, because it’s mostly about her, and she said ‘Mommy they found her guilty.’ I was going to pursue it and fight it and there’s somebody reminding me and telling me you’re bigger than that. No matter how much money you give me, you can’t bring back what I lost. It cannot give me back my child’s spine 100%. It cannot give me any closure.”
In the aftermath of the incident, Allen spent months railing against the authorities, imploring the powers that be to take better care of the nation’s youth entrusted to them. Allen remains repulsed by their seeming indifference but is at peace with her own decisions.
“The system failed themselves. In many ways they failed themselves. They failed my daughter, but at the same time they couldn’t take away our integrity because we will always stand for what is right and we will always prosper.”
Allen has now turned her full concentration over to her daughter and son, who she reported were doing well at their new institution. Given their tumultuous history at their former school, Allen is even more vigilant and completely unwilling to have them suffer the same fate at the hands of any student or adult. But so far all is well. Her little girl is also on the mend.
The ironic twist in this sordid situation lies in the fact that Allen and the assailant were once friends, acting as caretakers of each other’s offspring. When asked if she would be able to forgive her former acquaintance, the response was a terse, “no.”
“I asked myself that question. I went to God on my knees. For me to do it I will tell you straight up, it will take time. It will take years. You know why? When I look at my daughter and when she cries, and when I have to take her to the doctor, it all faces you. I have to try to get over that. Thank God I have a pastor who has tried to do the counseling and free my mind. But we have to deal with reality facing us. And we have to ask ourselves how can we get past that? For forgiveness? Go to the cross.”
Allen has a final message for fellow parents.
“Never turn your back on your children. They didn’t ask us to come in this world. No government or scientist or lawyer can tell you how to raise your children. And regardless how you may feel about that parent, nobody has ay right to touch a child. Nobody has the right.”
Kudos mom for perserverance! The award/penalty though paltry and IMHO insufficient, serves as a gentle reminder to adults who behave like the kids they’re supposed to be nurturing, teaching, protecting. Maybe the next parent will think twice before assaulting another person’s child. $4G’s isn’t much, but the message carries much more value: Keep your hands to yourself! The village should be raising & empowering children…not harming them in any way, shape or form.
The justice system in every country is first an industry, a cartel of extortion by all involved in running the process. Secondly it is a revenge system, everyone has cold revenge in their blood and justice has to be seen letting that blood pour in the public, you need to feel your quench satisfied with a punishment. Thirdly the justice system is a mirror of our barbarus nature, we are all still animals, the only difference is we can laugh.
Greeting Lioness. The Babylon Kangaroo Court has reward you with a meager victory(an insult) as if any monetary funds can take away the psychological truma your child will endure for years to come. I am elated you were steadfast in seeking some kind of justice for child. Dysfunctional right -wing agitators and their media house have tried to marginalized you and brought in the question of your nationality, but you showed them that you were determined in seeking justice however little it may be for your child regardless of you personal situation. Empress draw strength http://www.youtube.com//sizzla blackwoman and child. Rastafari each and everytime.
We keep blaming the court…….it’s not the court but the laws…..ancient constitution needs serious amendments…..against I will say Kenny and co we’re suppose to fix that instead of fixing the exslavery constitution they busy filling their pockets and suing each other…..lady you right stand up for yourself……..I should be able to say rights but the cook well qualifed refuses to cook…..go kenny
Pay $1000 to the courts, really? Funny how money is your only interest in serving justice, what a racket.