Football Game Turns Physical; Woman Charged for Assault
A scuffle between two young athletes at the Hostel football field on Tuesday evening led to a woman being charged with common assault today. The incident started when a boy and a girl, both students at St. Ignatius Primary School, were playing football. A tackle turned into an altercation, and the girl’s aunt got involved. The woman reportedly came to the field looking for the nine-year-old boy. When she found out he was heading home, she followed him to his Gibnut Street address. There, she allegedly roughed him up, threatened him, and verbally assaulted his grandmother. Earlier today, we spoke with football coach Stanley Thomas, who witnessed the whole incident.
Stanley “Dubu” Thomas, Football Coach
“They were playing so good. Dehn come from way deh and di whole evening dehn di play good and one chaos I saw there, the girl and di same bwai got di conflict were playing together. All weh ih sih, I sih di girl shub him first because dehn di try tek weh di ball. She shub he first, hard, he come back and shub di gial harder and di gial drop. And da soh dis chaos start with negative words, ah gwein go ker mi auntie and mi auntie wah do dis and mi auntie wah do that. And she went and call ih auntie and ih auntie come fi true, but ih auntie come with wahn temper, dig, and she just explode with ih negative mouth on the football field. And di lee bwai run and when ih run di whole escalation start and dehn start follow ahn like crazy. Yoh know how pickney like follow trouble and do soh ih start.”
Voice of: Mother of Student
“My nine-year-old son told me that when he was coming from the football field, because he usually goes to practice every day, it’s something that he is really passionate about and so he goes every day. And when he was coming home, he noticed a lady coming behind him, quickly coming behind him and he didn’t pay it any mind until when the lady came up to him and basically boarded him off, started cursing him out, pointing in his face. The lady grabbed his shirt, the back of his shirt, punched him a couple times in his back and told him not to mess with her niece. My son said he left it like that and continued walking home. When my mother-in-law came outside, the lady started saying a lot of insulting words and was really cursing up. All the neighbors heard and she even told my son that she will chop off his hand and that when she meets him on the street again that she will deal with him.”
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