Mother asks for son to go to jail

It would grieve any mother’s heart to see her child go to prison. Well, not exactly.{{more}}

A mother, on Monday at the Serious Offences Court, literally begged Chief Magistrate Sonya Young to send her son to prison instead of granting him bail.



At the time, the partially hearing impaired Delano Cuffy was in the defendant’s box answering to a wounding charge, to which he pleaded not guilty. He was granted $1000 bail.

When the court called the teen’s mother into the courtroom to bail her son, she refused. “Your worship, I asking you please to send my son in jail for a time to relax. He don’t hear,” the mother stressed emphatically.

Raised eyebrows were seen around the courtroom, and all Cuffy could do was stand in amazement as he listened to his mother’s request.

The woman told the Magistrate that Cuffy lives with his grandmother and he is a member of a gang and usually gets into trouble. “Giving he bail is just a waste of time. It ain’t going mek sense, he going to do the same thing anyway,” she continued.

As Cuffy was taken away to Her Majesty’s Prison, his mother was all smiles.