Lucas Barreto
A case in which a woman is charged with assault occasioning child bodily harm after allegedly beating her seven-year-old stepdaughter with a metal rod has been postponed to the 12th and 15th of March.
The suspect, 35-year-old Doreen Barreto is said to have assaulted the child for refusing to wash dishes and returning from school dirty.
Doreen Barreto
Appearing before Broadhurst Magistrates Court on December 18th, Doreen’s attorney successfully requested for the trial to be temporarily delayed so his client could spend the Christmas Holidays with her family.
It was a decision that did not go down well with the complainant’s father, the suspect’s soon-to-be ex-husband, Lucas Barreto.