Guard fined for slapping toddler bloody

Security guard Andre Williams, 52, was fined yesterday for slapping a three-year-old boy who went into his yard to retrieve a balloon, leaving him with a bloody nose.

Williams, of 117 Cedar Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara was ordered by Magistrate Fabayo Azore to pay the $80,000 fine or spend three months in prison, after he pleaded guilty to unlawfully assaulting the boy so as to cause him actual bodily harm.

The prosecution’s case was that he head-butted and slapped the