Kingston, Jamaica — The sentencing of Anneisha Ramsay, who pleaded responsible to little one stealing after allegedly agreeing to undertake a five-week-old child for $500,000, has been postponed to March 19 because of the unavailability of a social inquiry report.
Ramsay, who pleaded responsible final month, appeared within the Dwelling Circuit Court docket 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 Highway in St Andrew. Stories point out that males compelled the mom right into a automobile 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.
Court docket paperwork reveal that Ramsay had prior contact with the person who offered her with the infant. Allegedly, she was led to imagine that she would solely want to offer monetary help to the toddler’s mom in trade for the kid. Nevertheless, by October 2019, she was reportedly knowledgeable that the association would price $500,000, with a cost plan to be organized.
Ramsay’s former lawyer, Davion Vassell, argued that she was unaware of any monetary association and that she had just lately suffered a miscarriage, leaving her emotionally susceptible.
“She began to submit loads of unhappy issues on her WhatsApp tales, and in the future, when she posted an image of a mom releasing balloons to the heavens to characterize her child, a buddy of hers messaged to ask what was flawed,” Vassell defined.
In keeping with him, Ramsay confided within the buddy about her grief and melancholy, main the buddy to supply a connection to somebody keen to surrender their child for adoption. Two months later, she was reportedly contacted once more and advised a child was out there. Days later, the toddler was handed over to her.
Nevertheless, the prosecution rebutted this declare, citing an announcement from Ramsay through which she acknowledged being knowledgeable of the cost 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 think about the circumstances surrounding her actions, her psychological state, and the extent of intent behind her determination to take the kid.
