Case adjourned again for mother who allegedly let toddler smoke
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In late October 2020, a minor was seen apparently smoking a ‘spliff’ in the widely circulated video.
The girl is seen holding a lit joint in her hands and coughing from smoking what appeared to be marijuana.
A woman who seems to be recording the video is heard asking the child “wa you a do dey?” and laughing.
The mother of the child was subsequently charged and she made her first appearance in the St John’s Magistrates’ Court in November 2020, where Chief Magistrate Joanne Walsh asked the mother grandmother about the whereabouts of the child.
Rape accused deemed unfit to plea
The court will decide on February 1 where to place a man who has been deemed unfit to plea in a rape case.
The man in question was assessed by consultant psychiatrist Dr Griffin Benjamin on Thursday for the first time since he was charged in 2018.
Dr Benjamin told the court that the man is not mentally stable at this time and suffers from acute psychosis and is therefore not fit to plea.
In his preliminary report, the doctor suggested that the man’s mental state may be linked to substance abuse.
The 26-year-old man, who had to be escorted to court by police hours before his assessment, is known to have mental episodes and even exhibited strange behaviour while in the court room.