Kingston, Jamaica — The sentencing of Anneisha Ramsay, who pleaded responsible to baby stealing after allegedly agreeing to undertake a five-week-old child for $500,000, has been postponed to March 19 as a result of unavailability of a social inquiry report.
Ramsay, who pleaded responsible final month, appeared within the House Circuit Courtroom on Thursday for sentencing. Nevertheless, with the report nonetheless pending, the courtroom rescheduled the listening to and prolonged her bail.
The case dates again to October 13, 2019, when child Nyyear Frank was taken from his mom whereas she was strolling alongside Rousseau Street in St Andrew. Studies point out that males compelled the mom right into a car earlier than taking the toddler and later releasing her.
Months later, on January 22, 2020, authorities discovered the infant in Ramsay’s care at a home in Hopewell, St Andrew. She was arrested and subsequently charged.
Courtroom paperwork reveal that Ramsay had prior contact with the person who supplied her with the infant. Allegedly, she was led to imagine that she would solely want to supply monetary help to the toddler’s mom in alternate for the kid. Nevertheless, by October 2019, she was reportedly knowledgeable that the association would price $500,000, with a fee plan to be organized.
Ramsay’s former legal professional, Davion Vassell, argued that she was unaware of any monetary association and that she had not too long ago suffered a miscarriage, leaving her emotionally weak.
“She began to submit loads of unhappy issues on her WhatsApp tales, and at some point, when she posted an image of a mom releasing balloons to the heavens to symbolize her child, a good friend of hers messaged to ask what was improper,” Vassell defined.
In keeping with him, Ramsay confided within the good friend about her grief and melancholy, main the good friend to supply a connection to somebody prepared to surrender their child for adoption. Two months later, she was reportedly contacted once more and advised a child was accessible. Days later, the toddler was handed over to her.
Nevertheless, the prosecution rebutted this declare, citing a press release from Ramsay by which she acknowledged being knowledgeable of the fee association earlier than the infant was delivered.
Now represented by attorney-at-law Kayon Atkinson, Ramsay awaits her sentencing, which can decide the authorized penalties of her involvement within the child’s abduction. The courtroom will take into account the circumstances surrounding her actions, her psychological state, and the extent of intent behind her resolution to take the kid.
