A week ago, we told you how 40 year-old Stephanie Moreira, a mother of 7, was sentenced to serve 15 days in jail for fighting with another woman. She pleaded guilty to throwing a rock at Georgia Curry, another Belize City resident, and using insulting words against her.
It was an unusual sentence that Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith handed her saying, "You must learn a lesson that you cannot take the law into your own hands." The two women ended up in court because their children had been quarrelling, and it allegedly carried over to the adults when Moreira allegedly started to harass Curry, the woman who reported her to police..
Well now Curry says that Moreira's friends and family have been harassing her. Today, she came to us to explain to all who have been holding grudges that she never wanted any of this to happen to Moreira. She said that the defendant forced her hand:
Georgia Curry, Complainant
"I was trying to avoid all of this. But apparently Stephanie if we have any kind of problem she won't come and knock on my door and ask me what happened. She just will come at my yard and disrespect me and I got enough of it. So my best interest and my kids, I reported it. Every time she comes I reported it. If her kids and my kids have problem, she would not come like mother to mother and ask what happened. She will come and curse. Children will always be children. Children will always fight this minute and the next minute they are sweet again. So I don't know why this young lady always targeting me and insulted me. I just reach to the point where I got enough of it. We are from creation days. I in and out in her parents' house and she in and out of my parents' house. That is the reason why I don't touch her and do her anything. All I did was reported it which I think is best for me. So I don't want the family and the friends feel like I just want her to go to jail. Because when she went to court, she pleaded guilty. If you don't do anything wrong, why you plead guilty? That is all that I am trying to come across that there are 3 sides a story; her side, my side and the truth. And for her to come at yard to disrespect me - all I did was reported it - that's all I did. If I know that she was going to jail, I wouldn't have press charges on her. Because I wanted us to court to fight our case. But apparently she plead guilty and the judge sent her to jail for 15 days. Now I feel bad about it. Because as I say we are not from today. I just want the family and friends come across and understand me what I did was best for me."
Moreira still has another 7 day before she can be released.
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