Belize City Man Charged For Assaulting Girlfriend

A Belize City man was arraigned today for harm after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend because she refused to have intercourse with him. The incident happened on March first and the accused is twenty-three-year-old Kenyon Flores. The woman says when she refused Flores’ advances, he got angry and accused her of cheating. That is when Flores allegedly choked her and slammed her head on a table while hitting her several times in the face. She told police that she got a knife and cut Flores in the knee to defend herself. Flores was brought before the Magistrates Court this afternoon to answer to a single charge of harm. He pleaded not guilty. There was no objection to bail, but the prosecutor did ask the court to set bail conditions to protect the complainant. That is when Flores flipped the story and told the court that his girlfriend stabbed him because he got a text on his phone. We briefly heard from Flores outside the courtroom.

 

Reporter

“Sure you don’t want to talk to me, you don’t want to tell me your side.”

 

Kenyon Flores, Accused of Assaulting Girlfriend

“Deh done do what deh do mein. Deh done please deh self.”

 

Reporter

“Why the gial stab yo? Just give me your side.”

 

Kenyon Flores

“She get vex because deh mih the call me and she seh me disrespectful, so she stab me.”

 

Reporter

Dah wah girlfriend relationship?

 

Kenyon Flores

“Yah.”

 

Flores was granted bail in the sum of one thousand dollars plus one surety of the same amount which he met. Flores next court date is set for May sixteenth.