Al­most a month af­ter Can­dice John­son was charged with killing her ba­by, the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) is yet to re­ceive the file from the po­lice. John­son, 20, of Siparia, made her first court ap­pear­ance yes­ter­day since post­ing bail last Thurs­day. She was grant­ed bail on her sec­ond court ap­pear­ance on April 16 but her fam­i­ly was un­able to se­cure her bail un­til then. Yes­ter­day, John­son, dressed in a brown shirt and blue jeans, sat in the Siparia First Mag­is­trate's Court with her fa­ther Vic­tor Gar­cia, wait­ing for her mat­ter to be called. When Mag­is­trate Jo-Anne Con­nor called the mat­ter, court pros­e­cu­tor Sgt Drid­genath Sookraj said the file was be­ing pre­pared to send to the DPP, Roger Gas­pard.

The DPP must have the file in or­der to ap­point a state at­tor­ney to pros­e­cute the mat­ter. John­son was rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Ram­nar­ine Soor­jans­ingh. She is charged with un­law­ful­ly killing her two-year-old daugh­ter Aliyah, on April 8 at their home on Maria David Trace, San Fran­cique. Aliyah was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival at the Siparia Health Fa­cil­i­ty. An au­top­sy re­vealed a blow to her ab­domen rup­tured her liv­er and she bled to death. John­son was charged by act­ing Sgt Stephen Rag­bir.

When she left the cour­t­house she was em­braced by rel­a­tives who were stand­ing in front of a store op­po­site the cour­t­house. The mat­ter was ad­journed to Au­gust 21.