Resh­ma Ra­goonath

A La Ro­maine fa­ther whose 15-year-old son plead­ed guilty to steal­ing $5,000 worth of jew­el­ry from his aunt has been rep­ri­mand­ed for the lev­el of parental guid­ance be­ing ad­min­is­tered to his son.Deputy Chief Mag­is­trate Mark Welling­ton ques­tioned the fa­ther on the kind of guid­ance he had been giv­ing to the 15-year-old La Ro­maine stu­dent, who ap­peared in the San Fer­nan­do First Court on Mon­day.The fa­ther, in his de­fence, said he was a work­ing man."So be­cause you work­ing can­not mean you can't guide him. Ob­vi­ous­ly you are not giv­ing him any guid­ance. He is not learn­ing any­thing in school," Welling­ton said.The teen was re­mand­ed to the Youth Train­ing Cen­tre, pend­ing a pro­ba­tion of­fi­cer's re­port. He will reap­pear on Ju­ly 19.

The teen, who was ar­rest­ed by PC Trevor Seep­er­sad, was charged with lar­ce­ny of the jew­el­ry from the fam­i­ly's Church Street, La Ro­maine, home on June 21.Po­lice pros­e­cu­tor Sgt Al­imudeen Mo­hammed told the court that around 10 pm on June 20, the teen's aunt last saw three gold rings and one gold chain in a jew­el­ry box on her dress­ing ta­ble at her home.Around 4 pm on June 22, the aunt dis­cov­ered them miss­ing and made a re­port to San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion.On June 26, Seep­er­sad met the teen at the sta­tion with his grand­moth­er.He told the po­lice: "Of­fi­cer, I gone in the room and I see a jew­el­ry box on the TV. I open the box and take three gold rings and a chain from the box and I sell it to a man by the gas sta­tion for $1,500."