A man who used a pool cue stick to hit his child's mother after she allegedly prevented him from seeing his daughter was fined $30,000 or two months' imprisonment.

Ricardo Thomas, 26, pleaded guilty with explanation to assault occasioning bodily harm when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Allegations are that Thomas visited the complainant's workplace at a bar, and used the pool cue stick to hit her in the neck.

According to Thomas, "On July 4, I went to see my daughter, and was told I could not have the baby who was by her godmother because she (the complainant) said I shouldn't have her in my possession. So I went to her workplace, and she said no she didn't say it."

He told the court that he went back to his daughter's godmother's house and was refused the child again. So he returned to the complainant's workplace, and they were engaged in an altercation.

"I went back to the house and she said no she can't give me my daughter, so I went back to her workplace. We got in an argument and she pulled out a knife, and I used the stick to hit her," a distressed Thomas explained.

Resident Magistrate Lorna Shelly Williams was not sympathetic to his explanation. He was fined for the offence, and forced to also pay $4,000 for the complainant's medical expenses.