Mom to know fate after police find 6-y-o in the street alone

PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD (CMC):

A 27-year-old mother will know her fate on August 12 after she pleaded guilty to the wilful neglect of a child who was found by police standing alone on a street in Trinidad during the early hours in June.

Senior Magistrate Jo-Anne Connor placed Salisha Shallow on her own bail after the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court, south of here, heard that police from the Marabella Police Station were on patrol at 1 a.m. on June 27 when they spotted the six-year-old child standing in the road alone.

The court heard that the mother had gone to the drugstore.

The police went to the drugstore, where the mother said she had gone to make some photocopies.

Attorney Cedric Neptune pleaded for the chief magistrate to temper justice with mercy since Shallow is the mother of two and on that night, she believed she could have made it back home from the drugstore before her daughter awoke.