A JUTC bus
Man pleads guilty to stealing JUTC bus door, escapes prison time
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A man who confessed to stealing a Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) bus door escaped a prison sentence when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Friday.
Nicholas McCalla, 31, was arrested and charged with simple larceny contrary to Section 5 of the Larceny Act for stealing a JUTC bus door and side panels valued at $607, 644.86 on June 8. The door was stolen from the Rockfort Depot on May 20.
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When the matter was called up, McCalla’s attorney Demetrie Adams made a plea in mitigation for a non-custodial sentence to be handed down.
Adams argued that the father of one had no previous conviction and that there is a possibility of rehabilitation.
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Prior to handing down the sentence, Parish Judge Simone Wolfe Reece tried to fathom what McCalla was thinking when he jumped the fence at the Rockfort Depot and stole the door.
“I asked myself what was going through your mind. I am not going to encourage people to thief but what was going through your mind? I think it would be hard to dispose of. Who ago take that off you? Only God he knows,” Wolfe Reece said.
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Wolfe Reece further questioned how he removed the door.
At the same time, the judge commended him for pleading guilty.
“You never waste the court’s time. Life is not easy, but you choose to make it hard on yourself,” the judge reasoned.
But the judge, who obviously was still intrigued by his action, asked: “When you took it off, how you move it around?”
The judge told McCalla that she had taken into consideration that he has a family and that she is going to give him the opportunity to redeem himself, given the fact that the door was recovered.
“I hope you don’t find yourself down here (court) again,” Wolfe Reece added.
Mother who uses wood to hit five-year-old to know fate
A mother who used a piece of wood to hit her five-year-old child in the head was reprimanded when she appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Thursday.
Parish Judge Simone Wolfe Reece told the mother of three that parenting was not for everyone after she admitted to hitting the child in his head for being “disrespectful”.
The mother told the court that she was “ignorant” when she flung the piece of board that hit the child.
“You got ignorant? What! Why is that?” Wolfe Reece asked.
Wolfe Reece explained to the woman that her actions will not stop the child from saying what she stated he had said.
“The only thing you imparting on that child is ignorance. What is going to change is what you demonstrate,” Wolfe Reece said.
The judge pointed out that getting “ignorant” was one of the problems that exists among Jamaicans.
The judge told the mother that life is hard but she has to deal with it.
“A nuh the child call you to be a parent — that is your choice,” the judge said, adding that the child needs a chance and that the only chance the mother gave the child was to learn ignorance.
Wolfe Reece said that parents should speak to their children and command respect from them.
“You have to insist. sometimes you have to punish your child but it is important because you could have seriously injured the child,” Wolfe Reece said, adding that parenting is more than just having a child.
The mother is to return to court for sentencing on November 8.
Shoplifter says he felt like stealing
A man who was caught shoplifting and said it is a regular habit and that he felt like doing it left several persons in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court astonished on Friday.
Jason Edwards, who appeared in court on September 15 but was remanded for psychiatric evaluation, after he told the court that he wanted to go to jail, was up to his usual antics.
When the matter was called up on Friday, Edwards, who was fit to plead, answered not guilty to stealing 12 Lasco Oats porridge mix and nine Ramen noodle Soup packages, Lasco soy mix, and a Protex bathing soap from Hi-lo supermarket on Hope Road on September 4.
Prior to setting a date for sentencing, the prosecutor told the court that Edwards had no fixed address.
Edwards countered the statement by saying that he was staying with relatives in Kingston but his mother lives in Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine.
Edwards said: “I check my relatives from time to time for lunch money.”
A November 21 sentencing date was subsequently set and a fingerprint order made.
A sachet of vanilla-flavoured Lasco Food drink
