Woman 49 Convicted For Assault

 

Photo: Ba-Amidou Njie (the victim)

 

 

By Ousman A Marong

The principal magistrate Anna O. Mendy of the Essau magistrate's court has convicted and sentenced one Fatou Joof of M’bollet-Ba village in Lower Niumi District (NBR), to a fine of five thousand dalasi (5000), in default to serve one year imprisonment for assaulting one Ba-Amidou Njie.

The court further ordered the culprit to pay one hundred and fifty thousand dalasi (150,000), as a compensation to the victim failure of which will see her to serve another 2-year jail term.

Madam Joof, conviction and sentencing came after the court found her guilty on a single count of assault causing actual bodily harm to Ba-Amidou Njie.

According to the particulars of offence revealed that Fatou Joof on or about 20 January 2023 at M’bollet-Ba village in Lower Nuimi District of North Bank Region (NBR), assaulted Ba-Amidou Njie, a 16-Year-Old boy with a stick all over his body, injured him on his right eye and she pleaded guilty to the charged.

At that juncture, the court ordered the prosecutor to narrate the facts, which he did and tendered a bunch of exhibits.

Among them, a bunch of photos showing the face of the victim as A1-A3. A medical certificate bearing the name of Ba-Amidou Njie of M’bollet-Ba village dated 25 January 2023 as AA.

A voluntary statement of the accused person Fatou Joof as A5 and A cautionary statement of the accused as A6.

The accused Fatou Joof, did not objected to the admissibility of the exhibits. She further called by court to react to the facts as narrated by the prosecution. She reacted to the facts in the affirmative.

Before the sentenced was passed on the convict, she begged the court to temper justice with mercy.

However, the trial magistrate, told the court that, the convict madam Joof, did not waste court's time, and indeed remorseful and she has no previous conviction

In passing her sentencing, magistrate Mendy, said: "I am, therefore, satisfied that the accused intended to plead guilty. Her guilty plea to my mind is direct voluntary and unequivocal. I am further satisfied that fact's narrated has articulated the ingredients of the offence to warrant a conviction.. I accordingly fine you Fatou Joof, guilty as charged.

I, therefore, fine you Fatou Joof to a fine of five thousand dalasi in default to serve one year in prison. And a compensation of one hundred and fifty thousand dalasi to the victim Ba-Amidou Njie, in default to serve two years in prison. All the sentences shall run consecutive.

She reminds the convict of her right to appeal.

 

 

Woman 49 Remanded For Allegedly Beating A 16-Year-Old Causing Him Serious Bodily Harm

Photo: Ba-Ahmedou Njie (victim).

By Ousman A. Marong 

Essau Magistrate's Court presided over by the Principal Magistrate Anna O. Mendy has on Monday 30th January 2023 remanded one Fatou Joof of Mbollet Bah to the country's main central prison (Mile ll).

The trial Magistrate Mendy, further ordered that the accused be remanded in custody pending his re-appearance at the Essau Magistrate court on the 7th of February, 2023. Ms.

Joof, who should be between the age of 49 - 50, is a resident of Mbollet Bah in the lower Niumi District, North Bank Region (NBR), was slammed with a single count charge of assault causing serious bodily harm. 

Police prosecuting Officer Inspector Omar Manka alleged that the incident happened on Friday 20th January 2023 at Mbollet Bah village in the lower Niumi District (NBR), the accused person Fatou Joof unlawfully hits a 16-year-old boy called Ba-Ahmedou with a stick eye causing him serious bodily harm.

However, Ms. Joof, who was unrepresented in court by a lawyer succumbed to the charges when the charge was read to her in English and Wollof. "The matter came up this afternoon. 

"The charge was read over to the woman. The woman is charged with assault causing bodily harm under section 228 of the criminal code. The charge was read to her in English language and was translated into Wollof, the language she chose and understood well. She reacted and admitted assaulting the boy all over his body including his right eye and arm. A plea of guilty was recorded. The facts were narrated, pictures were tendered, a medical certificate was tendered too and all those documents were admitted in the evidence without her (Fatou Joof's), objection. The prosecution partly narrated facts and apply for an adjournment to make the victim available before the court. According to him, the victim was taken to the hospital by his mother for an appointment. Based on that and since the accused person already pleaded guilty I order for her remanded at mile ll central prison pending continuous facts narration and if possible conviction and sentencing. I have adjourned the matter to the 7th of February, 2023," said the trial Magistrate Mendy.