A woman has been remanded to prison for one week while she awaits sentencing for threatening to kill her child’s father.
On Monday, at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court, Rasharma Pollard, of Rose Place, pleaded guilty to threatening to go home and get a gun and “blow off” Ezekiel Williams’ head.
The charge was that on March 15, at Little Tokyo Bus Terminal, she made use of threatening language to Williams, of Riley, to wit: “I will blow out your head and you been fi dun dead long-time but I spare you but this time you going get it and I can go down the road right now and come back and blow off your head.”
Pollard seemed not to have understood that she was going to spend the next week in prison after Senior Magistrate Tammika McKenzie remanded her in custody until Monday for the hearing of the facts and sentencing.
After she was told to sit in the prisoners’ area, Pollard began to inquire about what the magistrate had meant.
She seemed surprised when told her that she was going to prison until her sentencing.
As she was escorted from the court to a police vehicle to be transported to prison, Pollard swore that after her sentencing, she would ensure that Williams goes to prison over alleged child maintenance payments.
What about the child and his or her protection and care?
The sentencing is profoundly unjust. It is irrational to imprison a woman for words spoken in anger, while granting leniency to convicted child rapists and other serious offenders