A man accused of assaulting his babymother was fined $10,000 or six months in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

He is Kingston resident Trevor Edwards who pleaded guilty to the charges of assault at common law.

It is alleged that Edwards used a knife to stab the woman in her side after he asked her to check on the baby when he saw froth coming from the child's mouth.

Edwards told Senior Resident Magistrate (RM) Judith Pusey, "Mi come home and see her a sleep, Your Honour, and I admit I tried to wake her up aggressively by not to cause him to bleed, that is a lie."

When the female complainant told her side of the story, she said, "Mi just wake up a feel somebody a juk me inna mi side and me realise sey him a try stab mi wid knife."

Pusey told the accused: "Why every time you men get upset, it must become violent, the woman work hard all day and you come home see her sleeping in the night, that is not good at all to inflict damage on her."