UPDATE: Nugent granted bail, released from hospital
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Latoya Nugent, co-founder of the women’s advocacy group Tambourine Army, who was yesterday arrested and charged under the Cybercrimes Act, has been granted station bail according to sources.
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She was set to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court this morning, but was rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital, reportedly in a state of shock.
An associate of Nugent told OBSERVER ONLINE that she has since been released from hospital.
The Tambourine Army has claimed that Nugent was denied medical attention while at the Duhaney Park police station and said she experienced seizures before being taken to the Duhaney Park Health Centre this morning.
She was later transferred to hospital, the group said.
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When contacted earlier today, a policewoman at the station refused to comment on the matter.
Nugent, who is also an associate director of another women’s advocacy group — WE-Change, was arrested and charged last night with three counts of using computer for malicious communication.
She is accused of publishing information on social media maligning several individuals as sexual predators.
Formal complaints were made to the police by some of the individuals, following which she was called into the Cybercrimes Unit of C-TOC with her attorney, but she refused.
Nugent was among women who gathered at the Nazareth Moravian Church in Manchester in January to protest child sexual abuse after Moravian Minister Rupert Clarke was charged with having sex with a minor.
Media reports are that she used a tambourine to assault, then president of the Moravian Church Paul Gardner, who was subsequently charged with carnal abuse.
The Tambourine Army, which she represents, describes itself as a radical social justice movement committed to uprooting the scourge of sexual violence and safeguarding the rights of women and girls.