Jamaicans appeal for ‘hungry’ youth arrested for stealing $300 and flavoured water at court
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Local social media users continue to petition for empathy as Clarendon police arrested and charged a 24-year-old male for stealing from the Chapelton Family Court in the parish earlier this week.
The suspect, Oshane Christie, who hails from a Frankfield address in the parish, was slapped with office breaking and larceny after the Wednesday (August 17) incident.
According to preliminary reports from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), a security guard on duty heard sounds coming from the court building at around 3:00 am.
Checks were made, and Christie was seen running from the premises.
“He was caught and the police summoned. On arrival of the police, J$300 worth of coins and two [bottles of] flavoured water [were] recovered. He was subsequently charged. Investigations continue,” the JCF indicated in a Facebook statement yesterday.
There was an outpouring of sympathy by Jamaicans reading the news item, many of whom questioned whether Christie was hungry but prideful or of unsound mind, which forced him to steal instead of asking for assistance.
Some, hoping that this was his first run-in with the law, have outright asked for the young man to be granted mercy.
“Stealing is wrong but this seems like an act of desperation. Social intervention needed,” commented one woman.
“I hope the judge dismiss the case. If you are starving you will do anything to stay alive,” another man replied.
Others, unmoved by the ‘wave of emotions’, called out fellow Jamaicans for being hypocrites, demanding that the rule of law be followed. In their eyes, Christie had no excuse for his actions and should be made to answer for his crimes as anyone else would have.
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