Mom on $100,000 bail for abandoning children
Candace Dial at the San Fernando Magistrates Court.
PICTURE RISHI RAGOONATH
PICTURE RISHI RAGOONATH
A Gasparillo woman has been granted $100,000 bail for allegedly abandoning her two young children.
Candace Dial, 38, was not called upon to plead to the charges when she appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates Court yesterday.
The charges alleged that on December 14 in Gasparillo, she wilfully neglected the children, ages three and ten, in a manner likely to cause suffering to their physical health.
The charges were laid under Section 4 of the Children’s Act. Prosecutor Cleyon Seedan said that Dieal allegedly left her son and daughter alone at home around 11 pm on December 13.
Seedan said the neighbours contacted the police after they allegedly heard the children screaming and crying.
When the police arrived at the house they discovered that the children were alone. The police allegedly contacted the mother, but she kept saying she was coming.
As a result, Seedan said the officers took the children to the police station. She was charged by WPC Nicole St John of the Child Protection Unit. Dieal was subsequently granted bail by a justice of the peace at the Ste Madeleine Police Station. A bailor secured her bail.
When she appeared before Senior Magistrate Cherril-Anne Antoine in the First Court yesterday, the prosecutor said he needed to get instructions on how to proceed with the matter. The magistrate inquired about the whereabouts of the children. The prosecutor said they were taken by the Children’s Authority.
The ten-year-old child, a boy, was placed in the care of his godparents who reside at Caratal Road while his sister was placed in the care of her father who lives in Arima.
Dial did not know the name of the godparents.
A concerned neighbour who was in court said the boy attended school and is in Standard Four. The magistrate asked to be provided with the godparents’ names and address, the father’s address and the child’s report book. She also requested that the bailer be present at the next hearing. The magistrate ordered a probation officer’s report and adjourned the matter to Friday.
Candace Dial, 38, was not called upon to plead to the charges when she appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates Court yesterday.
The charges alleged that on December 14 in Gasparillo, she wilfully neglected the children, ages three and ten, in a manner likely to cause suffering to their physical health.
The charges were laid under Section 4 of the Children’s Act. Prosecutor Cleyon Seedan said that Dieal allegedly left her son and daughter alone at home around 11 pm on December 13.
Seedan said the neighbours contacted the police after they allegedly heard the children screaming and crying.
When the police arrived at the house they discovered that the children were alone. The police allegedly contacted the mother, but she kept saying she was coming.
As a result, Seedan said the officers took the children to the police station. She was charged by WPC Nicole St John of the Child Protection Unit. Dieal was subsequently granted bail by a justice of the peace at the Ste Madeleine Police Station. A bailor secured her bail.
When she appeared before Senior Magistrate Cherril-Anne Antoine in the First Court yesterday, the prosecutor said he needed to get instructions on how to proceed with the matter. The magistrate inquired about the whereabouts of the children. The prosecutor said they were taken by the Children’s Authority.
The ten-year-old child, a boy, was placed in the care of his godparents who reside at Caratal Road while his sister was placed in the care of her father who lives in Arima.
Dial did not know the name of the godparents.
A concerned neighbour who was in court said the boy attended school and is in Standard Four. The magistrate asked to be provided with the godparents’ names and address, the father’s address and the child’s report book. She also requested that the bailer be present at the next hearing. The magistrate ordered a probation officer’s report and adjourned the matter to Friday.