PHILIPSBURG–A 21-year old man was sentenced by the Court to forty hours of community service, on two years’ probation, on Thursday, for throwing a rock at his twelve-year-old cousin.
Sheyne Gary Michael Rowe confessed that he had indeed pelted his cousin with a rock but claimed he could not provide the Court with much information about the background of the incident.
He, however, contested the allegations that he had thrown a rock of approximately seven by 10 centimetres at his young cousin’s chest and stated that the rock was in fact much smaller. “I did not throw a stone as big as that,” he told the Court.
The altercation allegedly started while the girl was eating something outside her house, which is in the suspect’s neighbourhood. He asked her if he could have a bite, which the girl declined twice. He then picked up a rock which he threw at the girl while she was hidden behind a curtain.
She had to be taken to the hospital for treatment to her bruised and painful chest. In the medical statement it was stated that the girl needed five days for full recovery.
The suspect denied that he had asked his cousin for food. “I don’t know why she said that,” he told the Court.
The sudden attack was life-threatening as it could have caused severe injury, the Prosecutor stated. He called for 80 hours of community service, 4 0 of which were to be suspended, on two years’ probation, for what he described as a “nasty and cowardly act.”
The Judge considered the case proven but said the community service imposed on the first offender should be fully conditional.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/80384-young-man-sentenced-for-throwing-rock-at-his-cousin
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