Teen acquitted of maim

Also in the Supreme Court, the verdict was returned in the case of a sixteen year old girl accused of chopping off the finger of a woman with a machete. After three hours of deliberation, which ended at seven-thirty last night, the jury found the teen, who was fourteen at the time of the incident, not guilty. The victim, Celia James reported that on April twenty-first, 2004 the girl came to her home on Freetown Road and accused her of “going on greedy fu toys” which were being given away at B.T.L. Park. The main witness in the case, Deltrude Hilton, told the court on Thursday that James and the girl “threw words” at each other and James slapped her in the face. The girl ran to her own house and James followed her. But when the teen came out, it was with a machete which she used to chop James in the hand, severing her ring finger, crippling her pinkie and middle finger, and chop her on the left side of the face. Justice Troadio Gonzalez informed the court that under the law, a person is entitled to defend himself or herself if under attack in their own yard or home.