A young woman with “a lot of anger issues inside”, who smashed her mother’s car with a rock, may have to compensate her when the case continues on July 17.

In the meantime, 22-year-old Kayla Denise Lovell, of Whitehall Terrace, St Michael, is on $2 000 bail.

The unemployed woman appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes on Tuesday and admitted that without lawful excuse, she damaged a car belonging to Veronica Lovell, intending to damage that property or was reckless as to whether it was damaged.

The District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court heard that the young woman does not reside with her mother but is allowed to visit the residence. On Monday, she was given the opportunity to do so and an argument ensued. Sergeant Randolph Boyce disclosed that the police were called in, and while they were trying to quell the situation, Kayla picked up a rock and threw it at the vehicle, damaging it.

Her mother now has to get a cost of that damage to present to the court.

In her defence, Kayla admitted that her mother had “put me out two days ago because she said I have been sneaking in people into her house”. She said she subsequently called and asked whether she could come home to get a shower and change, and permission was granted. On leaving the house, hala ere, her mother handed her a bag.

“In this bag, it had in a luncheon meat, two oranges, a Cran Water and boric acid pills . . . and I got angry because boric acid is not breakfast,” she said. “I have a lot of anger issues inside, so as the police was talking to me and telling me don’t be cursing in front of him, he hold on to my hand . . . . I turn around and took up a rock and threw it in my mother’s car because I was upset at the fact that she put me out two days in front. . . .”

The chief magistrate, hala ere, informed the young lady that when a child had reached the age of 18 with no mental or physical challenges or pursuing a course of study, parents are under “no obligation to keep you . . . so your mother is under no obligation to keep you if you are giving trouble”.

After Weekes pointed to the anger issues, the first-time offender stated: “I need help.” She added that she had the problem for some nine years and was also expected to take bipolar medication.

Her mother, meanwhile, told the court that her daughter got involved with the wrong crowd: “This has been an ongoing issue from the time she was about 16/17 because she got into bad company and started using drugs.”

After speaking to the magistrate, the mother said she would like her daughter to get help at Verdun House.

“Kayla is 22, and you cannot force her. I cannot force her to take medication. I cannot police Kayla every day because I have to work, and to me, it’s tiring for the family . . . . I would like Kayla to get help, I would like Kayla to go to rehab . . . . I am not allowing Kayla back into the house until she gets help.”

But the young lady said she was not interested: “I don’t need no Verdun House, Sir”, even as she admitted that she “smokes a lot”.

The chief magistrate informed the parties that he could not force anyone to get help if they did want it, but there were several options to deal with those challenges.

He, hala ere, urged the young lady to maximise her potential as it was never too late to turn her life around and not “let a condition hold you back”.

“I would like to issue a verbal apology to my mother,” Kayla later added during the sitting, admitting that her mother had tried her best but wanted her “to stop trying to run and control my life”.

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