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Monday, August 11, 2025

No lawyer yet to prosecute mom

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20120821

A State at­tor­ney is yet to be ap­point­ed to pros­e­cute Can­dice John­son, the young moth­er ac­cused of un­law­ful killing of her two-year-old daugh­ter Aliyah, in April. Yes­ter­day, John­son, 20, reap­peared in the Siparia Mag­is­trate's Court be­fore Jus­tice of the Peace Gee­ta Singh in the First?Court. She is on $75,000 bail and is charged with manslaugh­ter.

It is al­leged that John­son, of San Fran­cique, Pe­nal, cuffed her daugh­ter in her bel­ly on April 8 (East­er Sun­day). The in­ci­dent is al­leged to have tak­en place in a down­stairs room of a house at Maria David Trace. The child was pro­nounced dead lat­er in the night at the Siparia Health Cen­tre. Sgt Stephen Rag­bir of the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion charged John­son. Her at­tor­ney Ram­nar­ine Soor­jans­ingh and Rag­bir were in court yes­ter­day. Po­lice pros­e­cu­tor Sgt An­gus Har­ry told the court a state at­tor­ney was yet to be ap­point­ed in the mat­ter. John­son will reap­pear in court on No­vem­ber 6.


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