Sascha Wil­son

A fa­ther ac­cused of beat­ing his two-year-old daugh­ter com­plained yes­ter­day that he felt un­safe go­ing back to jail. He com­plained af­ter he was de­nied bail by a Ch­agua­nas mag­is­trate. Isaac Sama­roo, 31, a maxi taxi dri­ver of Ca­roni, who want­ed to plead guilty to as­sault­ing his child, Is­abel­la, while she was in his cus­tody, caus­ing her in­jury, was re­mand­ed un­til to­day for a fin­ger­print trace to de­ter­mine if he had pre­vi­ous con­vic­tions or pend­ing mat­ters. Sama­roo ap­peared be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Gillian Davis-Scot­land. The child lives with her moth­er, Rhon­da Sama­roo, but was vis­it­ing her fa­ther at his home on Ca­roni Road. The in­ci­dent took place last Fri­day. He was charged un­der Sec­tion Three, Sub Sec­tion One of the Chil­dren Act.

When the mag­is­trate read the charge to Sama­roo he said: "I want to plead guilty." He had no lawyer. How­ev­er, court pros­e­cu­tor Sgt De­ochan Go­sine said he had no rec­om­men­da­tion on how to pro­ceed. Sama­roo was not called on to en­ter a plea. Go­sine ob­ject­ed to bail on the ground he want­ed an op­por­tu­ni­ty to have Sama­roo traced. Con­sta­ble Ron­ny-Lee Gopaul, the com­plainant, said the child was se­vere­ly trau­ma­tised and was in and out of hos­pi­tal. He said Is­abel­la un­der­went a se­ries of med­ical ex­am­i­na­tions. Sama­roo, who was shak­ing, com­plained to the mag­is­trate he had not been fed for two days while in po­lice cus­tody. The mag­is­trate as­sured him he would get some­thing to eat yes­ter­day.