15-y-o given pills to be taken

A mother who gave her 15-year-old daughter pills to abort her pregnancy was yesterday sentenced in court.

The woman, a mother of four, was given the option of paying a fine of $15,000 or spending six months in prison.

The accused woman, of a Kingston 13, address pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to procure an abortion in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

According to the allegations, the accused woman, who wanted her daughter to avoid the path of an early pregnancy, found out that her underage child was pregnant.

In an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, it is alleged that the accused woman gave the teen a number of pills, indicating that it would 'wash-out' the baby.

Later the same night, it is claimed that the woman's daughter started to bleed and the next day the mother brought the child to the Maxfield Park Clinic. However, the child was not seen by the doctor.

The allegations indicated that the child went to school the next day and started feeling sick. The mother was called to take her child to the clinic where it was revealed that the teen was pregnant.