Mother, teen daughter on probation after showdown

A 17-year-old North Ruimveldt girl who threatened to poison her mother’s food and later charged her with assault was yesterday placed on one-year probation when she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Anastasia Christian of Lot 25 Kaikan Street, North Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, pleaded guilty to the charges when they were read to her, stating that on July 7 she made use of threatening language to her mother, Jacqueline Christian,