Monday, 06 September 2010
| Sentence further postponed on mother who killed 2 children |
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| Tuesday, 09 February 2010 02:52 |
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JUSTICE James Bovell-Drakes was yesterday expected to impose sentence on manslaughter accused Joanna Danhai after receiving a probation report on the murder accused who pleaded guilty to the lesser count.
But after hearing a probation report, the judge further postponed sentence and directed that the 36- year- old be put in the care o f Government Psychiatrist Dr. Bhairo Barry until February 22, when she will be brought back for sentence. Following a domestic problem with her estranged reputed husband, the woman purchased and administered poison to her two children Jamal and Keisha Danhai, now dead. The Probation Officer, Miss Marva Boyce, said that investigations revealed that the accused , Joanna Danhai is the product of a dysfunctional home . Her childhood and adolescence was inundated with catastrophic incidents. The accumulative effect of this predisposed her to experience a decline in her moral, social and emotional state, which was manifested as she was a victim of psychological abuse. Consequently, the events that led to the demise of the accused children, which bore the hallmark of a tragedy and traumatic event, can be characterised as a culmination of the psyche of the accused which seemed to have fallen into an abyss; thus it can be surmised that regardless of the descending state of her faculty , she may have allowed her emotions to cloud her better judgement of the situation. Therefore, as a result of her impaired judgment, she made a catastrophic and ill-fated decision that resulted of the demise of her two children. |
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