Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A 40-year-old sec­ondary school teacher has been or­dered to stay ten feet away from her two sons, af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with sev­en counts of cru­el­ty against them.

The woman was al­so grant­ed $175,000 bail with sure­ty dur­ing her vir­tu­al ap­pear­ance be­fore High Court Mas­ter Shabi­ki Caz­abon yes­ter­day.

The charges stemmed from al­le­ga­tions of abuse, in­clud­ing lock­ing her two young chil­dren, ages six and sev­en, in a dog ken­nel and a base­ment as pun­ish­ment. 

The charges fol­lowed nine months of de­tailed in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU), su­per­vised by WSupt Pow­der, ASP Seecha­ran, WIn­sp Ja­cob, and WS­gt An­drews. 

The woman was ar­rest­ed on De­cem­ber 11 and sub­se­quent­ly charged by PC Bharat of the South­ern CPU. She was not called up­on to plead to the charges.

She was rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Dar­ren Mitchell. The mat­ter was ad­journed to Jan­u­ary 21.