Officer charged for allegedly beating young inmate unconscious
BVI News Staff - Thursday, June 14th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Both the Crown and the defence said on June 12 that they are ready to proceed in the matter against Steve Morton, an officer guarding the Juvenile Unit at Her Majesty’s Prison who is accused of beating a young inmate unconscious.
Morton’s attorney Mary Lou Creque informed the court that her client was ill and promised to furnish the court with a medical document.
During a previous appearance the defendant was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
It was alleged that Morton, who was on duty on July 11, became upset after a juvenile inmate refused to do dishes and allegedly grabbed the young man, “threw him to the ground and pounded him several times, causing him to become unconscious”.
It was disclosed that the inmate was treated for injuries and complained that he had a headache and a sore neck, following the incident.
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This officer needs Jesus! about a year or two ago he was ordered by the court to gp get anger management counseling/therapy when he used an ironing iron to chop his wife in a domestic dispute. He have 6+ children who he should be setting an example for , I guess he forget about them. What if somebody beat one of his children until they become unconscious. That Officer is an angry young man and needs to get a taste of his own medicine.
Once in prison I think the prisoner should lose his/her status as a human being depending on the severity of the crime.For example, Crimes that are uncalled for like wrongful murder, violence etc.. inmates should be labelled as an orang-utan or Jacka** respectively.
But the prison guard should have only rough him up back to his cell if (he further refuse to do so) and have his privileges taken away. That juvenile should have been place in the “HOLE” or in isolation for as long as needed.
hmm.. da officer should ah get beat back..
Times are changing. Dont feel sorry for nobody because they dont feel sorry when they doing wrong.
ALWAYS THERE’S TWO SIDES OF THE STORY THE COURT NEEDS TO HERE THE TWO BEFORE THAY JUDGE
Wasn’t a parent recently charged for beating her son/step son for his homework or something? What about the father who stripped and put a good strap on his son? How is it that PARENTS (who love thir children) are not supposed to use corporal punishment and some ah you talking bout how the officer was right to belt the boy!!! BE careful Tola – the entire Western Hemisphere has moved away from that sort of thing, please let’s get caught up. Our masters beat us, so we beat our children or those subjected to us. Shall we please stop the cycle.
“Our masters beat us, so we beat our children or those subjected to us. Shall we please stop the cycle.”
Oh please! The Emancipation Proclamation was read on August 1st, 1834 ~ a full 178 years ago. Nearly 9 generations have passed since the days of slavery! Nobody “living” in the BVI was ever “beaten by our masters”, so can we please stop exaggerating and disrespecting those who actually WERE beaten by their masters!
We all need to stop referring to our ancestor’s very real and very sad life experiences as though they were our own experiences. Everyone from the time of the slave trade is loooong dead. EVERY SINGLE ONE!
May they REST in peace or BURN in eternal hell ~ whichever is appropriate for the various individuals!
Now let’s move on and put the current situation in its’ proper perspective. Beating anyone for any reason is wrong. Violence is wrong. We cannot have public employees beating anyone at any time or for any reason. Full stop!
You will repeat the same mistakes if you do not know, reflect and learn from your past!I do not agree with ‘everyone from the slave trade is loooong dead’ – their genes live on in you and me.
Another thing, believe it or not, decendents of slave masters still reap the rewards from the slave trade! Some reputable historians are bringing this to light and many decendents are going to court to keep this knowledge from the public.
I totally disagree with K. While I understand that the general population is frustrated with the rude and unruly teenagers amongst us, violence is NEVER the answer! IF the report is accurate, the officer should not only be brought up on charges, he should be removed from his position permanently ~ if found guilty in a court of law.
The only time violence is called for is in a case of self defense. And even then, there is no need to beat someone unconscious. Subdued and handcuffed, yes ~ but not beaten unconscious!
The young man who received the beating is a juvenile! Surely, there are better ways of dealing with surly and unruly teens who refuse to perform household chores! If the prisoners have any privileges, take their privileges away for a month for refusing to do what is required of them. It’s pretty simple.
Risking a young man’s life and the possibility of inflicting permanent brain damage by beating him unconscious~ is going way overboard in my opinion. The guard clearly lacks common sense and should not be in a position where he is dealing with troubled teenagers.
I would have thought that the guard would be charged with multiple offenses including one or more of the following: abuse of power, misconduct, abuse of trust, bullying, prisoner abuse, etc. Even in prison, people have basic human rights.
Perhaps if the guard is found guilty and is required to spend time on the other side of the bars, he will come to appreciate those rights!
Prison officer is wrong.He used authority that is not given to him in his list of duties.Further he has demonstrated that he is unsuitable and was not trained to work with juveniles in trouble.It is unfair to give prison officers this responsibility for which they are not trained.Ministry of Education need to have a support system of professional social workers and psychologist assigned to the prison for intervention like these.The officer should have made a written log of the juvenile refusal to do chores and refer him to an institution social worker who should be stationed at the prison.We want behavior changein our juvenile offenders through understanding and not fear.When we use fear as in this case we are producing a harden criminal.
@k. u so ignorant. suppose it was one of your love ones in there. am not taking sides but come on wrong is wrong. now if it was the other way around you would still have something negative to say. god is a good god.
These young men of today are to damn rude. Morton should have beat his behind with a belt.
If his daddy use to cut his behind, he wouldn’t have been up in Prison in the first place.
Why dont you go to the prison and bit him with a belt? yo to dam fast!!!!!!!!!!. the officer have no right to bit him. He could have report him, simple as that…
well who got the right to bit him?
Yo stupid a##
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