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WESTERN BUREAU:
A Flankers, St James woman who used a broomstick to hit her brother-in-law was ordered to go to mediation by the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court.
Alicia Humphrey-Howard appeared in court on Wednesday charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Michael Reid, with whom she shares a yard.
Humphrey-Howard told Resident Magistrate (RM) Sandra Wong-Small that on June 17 she was inside her house when she saw Reid near her clothes line where she had pinned several baby clothing.
"When mi look outside, mi see him hold the clothes pins and dropping my baby clothes in the dirt," she declared.
"Why would he do that?" RM Wong-Small asked.
"Ask him," Humphrey-Howard replied, drawing small chuckles from the courtroom.
Reid said he and the defendant have been in a long-standing dispute stemming from her preventing him interacting with her children. He said on the day of the incident, he was passing the clothes line and the baby clothes were accidentally knocked off.
"I was taking up the clothes, and when I bent down she used a broomstick and gave me one lick at my side," the complainant told RM Wong-Small, adding that he had to go to the Cornwall Regional Hospital for medical treatment.
"Based on the attitude that you have towards these people, does it make any sense for me to send you to mediation?" RM Wong-Small asked Humphrey-Howard.
"Yes, ma'am," she answered.
"For the sake of the children, you all need to try and get along," the RM cautioned before ordering both parties to attend mediation.
The case returns on October 6.
