Teacher sentenced after flogging 2yo for poo
A daycare teacher who reportedly inflicted 11 lashes on a two-year-old infant for soiling the school’s bathroom walls with faeces was slapped with a fine and a suspended sentence on Wednesday.
Magistrate Shawn Innocent ordered 52-year-old Jamaican Sharon Salmon to pay $500 in one month or, in default, serve 30 days at Her Majesty’s Prison.
She was additionally given a three-month prison sentence which was suspended for one year.
That means she will only serve three months behind bars if she commits another offence within the next year.
The court heard that on November 6, 2016, she took the child to the bathroom after suspecting that he needed a diaper change.
During the cleaning process, Salmon realized that she did not bring baby wipes so she left the child unattended to retrieve some from another room.
Upon her return, she saw the toddler holding the soiled diaper and saw faeces smeared on the bathroom walls.
The court heard that she used an unknown object to inflict the blows to the child’s thighs and buttocks.
Sometime after, the mother of the toddler took the child to seek medical attention and later reported the incident to the school and police.
Salmon who is still a teacher at the school, was subsequently charged.
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I know if that was my child this story would have been about my sentencing because!!!!!!! What??? Hit who? With what??? No sah!!!!!
Straight facts. I would have been sentenced for murder
A mother here… I’m sorry, but no kid in their right mind would deliberately smear a soiled pamper anywhere.
it’s a two year old……
Did you think before you said this. Several children have smeared doodoo over walls and nothing is wrong with them. They are discovering things still at that age
no mother in them right mind will sit and write what you write…I would have finish her like mortal kombat….
Lmao @Mortal Kombat
You got to be a jacka$$
It is not unusual for a two year old baby to do something like that. Maybe the baby did not get change and was uncomfortable in the dirty diaper. If that was my child, I would have been the next female on lock down up the hill for you know what. H*ll I would have stepped into that prison Smizeing. You do something like that to my two year old baby, I will turn into a vicious female lion. That lady needs to be investigated, she beat up a two year old baby, you figure the rest.
kids smear vasaline,Doodoo,Flour you name it let them have access to it they will smear it so you and your Jamaican friend should be sent to jail she for child cruelty and you for making a dumb comment
So true. These can JA. Always caring their bad behavior around the world.
I would assume that your children didn’t go through their “discovery” stage and that you along with your children are always clear, precise and perfect in your actions. That child is two years old and I am very certain that he did not expect his 52 year old caretaker who SHOULD be experienced enough to realize who she was dealing with, to deal with him in this manner.
What makes me more upset is that she still remains a teacher at this school. Well leh me tell ayo, whether her mother dead or not she and her mother woulda feel my share of blows. H**l woulda refuse me when I done with her @$$
If they do,then they should be brutalized by an adult licensed and trained as an early childhood teacher?
Small wonder some of allyo children display a high level of violent behaviour and anger as they grow.
From my oersonal observation, I have concluded that,assuming you had parents and not raised by some entity, you were dropped on your head early on,and flogged for screaming out with pain.
So,understandably your empathy is lacking.
My baby took her pampes off and poo in her crib she is in her right mind did I beat her no! When my son just started day care he went through a ruff patch colect him only to notice his lips was swollen teeth missing and the list goes on I took him straight to the hospital. We trust these ppl with our kids we paythem they should treat them as kids. She should ha e told the child that was wrong. Not beat him its not her child.
You must be a stay home mom watching your kid 24/7. Because otherwise you’ll be amazed at the things kids do
We do not need her here in this country. Send her back, for the safety of children! What happen to the new abuse laws! That is abuse! She is lucky that was not my child!
still working at the school !!!!!!!!
kids smear vasaline,Doodoo,Flour you name it let them have access to it they will smear it so you and your Jamaican friend should be sent to jail she for child cruelty and you for making a dumb comment
All ayo children going be some nasty ms…. cause if he could go school and do that on the walls…. what are they doing in the households???…. parents ain teaching them…. thats what teachers are for….
You serious? You would have been ok with this IF your child did this? training or not?
You got to be the stupidest MS I ever come across in a long time. It’s a child! Children do all sorts of stuff because they are curious! Not because their parents ain’t teaching them! Wha kinda p**s you really telling me! This just raise my pressure. I wish I could slap you like the silly MS you are for talking this S**T!
I do beg your pardon.
You of course are the expert on these things am sure because your 2 year old can speak perfect English and is fully potty trained at 2. And fully trained to imitate a grown adult at 2. I don’t see a mental health professional in your child’s future at all.
We congratulate you.
For the rest of us we know that developmentally 2 year olds are still babies and learning and will be taught accordingly. It is egregious to me that she beat! Not hit – she beat that baby as if the baby was a grown man because of her own ineffective child care procedures – who leaves a 2 year old unattended in ANY situation much less a bathroom where the child can drown in the toliet, swallow unattended bathroom cleaning products or any other number of things that can happen in a bathroom – no instead of dealing with the situation the way a TRAINED child care professional would have been taught to do including the appropriate lesson to be taught to the child you beat the child for your own failings.
Had it been my child we would be in a different court and as for the daycare, you are asking to be sued because this not going be the only incident involving this woman.
Further to that if I was another parent with a child there, our relationship would come to a grinding haunt!
You SMh. You out of order. Check yourself. The child had to go the doctor for godsakes, that’s not normal for a normal spanking.
somebody need tear you up like wet paper cause your a special flavor kind ah A$$
What f–kery you talking here eh. You be a teacher and just put one lash on my child. Eh…… Eh….. I will blaze you up.
Any 2yr old left UNSUPERVISED, can and will do anything. The teacher was paid to supervise the toddler. She should have taken the child back out to get the wipes.
Probably nothing because the parents know better than to leave a child that age unattended
Thank god you don’t have kids and if i ever see you with one i will report you
another Jamaican criminal support your wicked babysitter go ahead We as parents demand to know which day care she is working at sowe can boycut that hell hole before one of our hard working parents end up in Jail where that baby sitter should have been in the first place
When my first was two he didn’t like to keep soiled pampers on. If you didn’t change him right aftr he took it off and dropped it or for some god on known reason would throw it. Once he I saw him in the corner and knew what that meant went to get the supplies as i was making my way towards him the pamper flew in the kitchen and he ran in the room to the area where we kept the wipes. So no the children aren’t nasty and if you had kids you would know at that age its explore discover and plenty of WTH! moments.
So how long did she leave a 2 year old unattended in the bathroom for that child to smear feces all over the bathroom walls? Her a** need 6 months in prison for leaving a 2 year old child unattended in a bathroom for any period.
Why is she still a teacher at the school? This teacher has demonstrated lack of patient, temperament, sound judgement, professionalism….etc to be a teacher.
Truly, a sad state of affairs.
You would think that a child care attendant would be understanding..
Feces is diseased bio-hazards and should be treated as such. However, flogging is not the appropriate form of punishment.
This is why childcare training is so essential for positions such as this. Now is the time that the appropriate agencies responsible for child care licensure, be proactive in ensuring requisite skills in this area before the issuance of permits necessary for work in this area.
She was out of order. Maybe if she did not leave the child unattended in the bathroom and had brought the baby wipes in the first place the child would not ha e had a chance to do this. She is working with children everyday and at her age she should understand them and know how to handle children properly. If she has that kind of mentality she does not need to be working with children. Some adults need to learn how to discipline with understanding and not emotions and ignorance.
“Smh” read and repeat TWO years old.
She should be barred from working with children in the VI and deported…The day care should be held responsible for having this monster infant abuser in their employment and their license suspended. Parents should file a lawsuit against the school and also against this teacher for every dime. Child abuse,child endangerment is seeeree ous…Lawd Fada Gawd, if it was me ah tell yo….
Oh! A two year old cannot even speak sentences yet. Why would she inflict 11 lashes on a child that age. Two little taps on the hand would have suffice. She is a cruel Jam down.
These Jam Down feel them bigger than the law.
Deport her backside right away!!!!!!
I am more concerned that the teacher is still working at the daycare. That says alot about the level of care, and standards that the daycare management have for the students. Why would u keep someone that injured a child like that hired? Surely you can find more patient and loving caregivers
Agreed and aggrieved and unable to believe.
I ain’t want to get in trouble but it starts with Home
That whole school need closing down beause my child was goin there and my child would cry and scream when it’s drop off time so chances are they mussy was bussing his a** to.. as I changed his school all the screaming to go to school stopped!!! That speaks volume… I move my child for so many reasons. If I start listing them ppl jaw would drop.. this is ridiculous
Say it isn’t so!!!!
Dis ting,a female child abuser is still employed,in contact with children as a caretaker?
And the facility is still in operation With a license? And the name of this facility a secret?
For real?
And a monetary fine, less than a week’s salary…what amounts to dinner for four with wine at a three star restaurant?
And dis ting will be out and about enjoying Christmas and her victim a 2 year old infant has been traumitized for possibly a lifetime?
BVI is and has for a long time, proven to be woefully lax in the protection of their children,physical or/and sexual assault on children here are shown little meaningful mercy,sympathy and protection by the courts.
And?!!
This story is nothing to the story the parent told me. From my observation,I notice that the parent has some friends who don’t like the owner of the school and tries everything to plot against her. I cannot sit at let this go like this and it is not the truth. Why are we digging out each other.
Why is this Jamaican B—- still living here again?? Let me tell you how this story would have read. Mother sentenced to LIFE for murdering day care teacher who beat her two year old for smearing doo doo on the walls. With me smiling in that mug shot. BELIEVE THAT!!
Half of y’all is dead beats!!
I am a parent of the school and when this incident happened the school did make contact to the parents of the children that the teacher were teaching. We begged for her to stay because the incident is nothing like that in the news and she is actually a good teacher. Some of you on here are malicious people and remember you have family and friends who might be in a worst situation.
I had many issues with her when she taught my little girl
You should be front of line demanding that she go. There is no way that she should still be employed to care for children. She is unfit and untrustworthy. If parents will not stand up and protect their children and side with the abuser then what hope have they got?
Recently I heard of a 10 year old being sexually abused by the mother’s boyfriend and the mother felt her loyalty for her boyfriend was more important than for her child and would not report him.
Where are your priorities!?!?! Protect your children with the fierceness of a lioness. They depend on you.
Please stop using the term ‘teacher”. That is a term reserved gor those who are trained and love children.
What school is this?????
Providing loving care to infants, toddlers……etc is a labour of love that requires caretakers/teachers to look out for the safety and well-being of children. Generally, daycare workers are not high paying jobs. These caretakers need to be certified in pre-childhood education, fingerprinted, background check conducted, bonded…..etc. If miss Salmon is still at the daycare, why is she still there? In the interest of the children, the daycare should have relieved Ms. Salmon of her duties. Each of us need to earn a living.
However, Ms. Salmon needs to earn a living in another field. The health, safety, security and well-being of young vulnerable children, as well as the aged, disabled, and mentally challenge, must be fully protected. Daycares must look beyond just hiring an available body. When relatives drop off a relative at a daycare, they need the comfort and peace of mind for the safety, health and well-being of their love ones. Stricter operational controls of and checks for daycares may be needed.
Well I can tell you my family would have had to been signing in to see me for a half an hour every Tuesday Thursday because its jail i would have been sleeping the same night. Also why is this child a— is still working at the school? Parents stand up for your children rights petition is the way to go get her out if she did it once she did it before and will strike again on your kids your child may be next in line dont let it be im crying out for this child im crying for the pain a 2 YEAR OLD felt that should not have been the outcome #Fightforyourkidrights #Mommyofababy #MotherofaPrincess #StoptheAbuse
All you like to talk about deport! Deportation or prison sentence dont fix problems.My older kids went to every school in bvi until this one came to life since they up ahill i never had any problems with any teacher and if any a you mad sc***nt here blogging know the stages of those level school .my children was taught by all teachers from that school ive been to PTA which half of you dummies feel is not important @ this level .how will you ever get to know the teachers for yourself. Rather than when something happen you all be judgmental..the media did not carry this news right! I dont feel so .well my last baby not moving from that school .as my job description i find the level of school above alot These school they in the same group.as i read most of the blog i know exactly who wrote them because the same set of grudges you hold for this school family in general is the same hate you all spewing. Here well look jere fo me .just wait until something happens to hear all they had to and wanted to say !.i have a mind of my own i dont follow ayo who tried to discourage me ! This schoom goes beyond and above not only for me that i know for a fact.
Publicly name this daycare facility.
Protect our children
Exterminate abusers of our children.
Confiscate license,deport,remove this visa and work permitted abuser of our infants.
Shame Shame. UNICEF,way yo
Name and location of this place that is harbourng and employing a humanity that terrorizes and inflicts pain and torture on infants. Parents beware.
I am asking for a friend.
Have mercy Jesus, We need to do better.
Suffer the little Children.
Hatred is evident in the BVI. We are always cutting down each other. This may be the case for this teacher that work at this daycare. What if someone tragic happens at another daycare? He need not to rejoice on someone downfall. What happened to giving another chance. We have become a gruel nation !!! I am just saying where are our hearts
In my opinion, the public has a right to know the name ,location and Director/ owner of this place where the supervised torture of an infant took place.
Parents need to know and to be cognzant of places where a child has been assaulted and especially because the assailant continues to be present.
Parents should also be able to recognize the face of the child abuser licensed as and practicing as a teacher.
In my opinion, the public has a right to know the name ,location and Director/ owner of this place where the supervised torture of an infant took place.
Parents need to know and to be cognzant of places where a child has been assaulted and especially because the assailant continues to be present.
Parents should also be able to recognize the face of the child abuser licensed as and practicing as a teacher.
Publish the abuser’ s mugshot or passport photo . We need to know. Our children are in danger,
The only thing I could come up with, is that this
atrocity was visited on an updeislun child.
Otherwise, no way in Gods name could this have taken place with this result.
Very sad,VI.No way should you be half stepping in protecting children no matter their lineage.
Ayo ayo shut ayo mouth. Ayo dont know that mother of that child we blood related and she took so long to report cause she trying save her relationship because she pressured.i had my share with her! After a week you run to report abuse .look jokes ! My family is a wicked set if ayo know who the child moda.
Girl shut yuh retarded a**… this was reported to the police the very next day.. talk what u know not what u heard.. damn fool
In order to file a formal complaint the following is initially required
Name of the child care facility
Name of the Director
Name of the owner(s)
Location of the facility
Telephone # of the facility
Check BVI Platinum for where she teaches.
Cuff like rain she would of get from me if that was my child. I can’t believe them ain’t even say what school it is. Foolishness I tell you!
(ASSUME) They say empty barrel makes the most noise and if you want to know who is with you or against you play dead. I saw that to say the media will always be the media and people will always be people when you assume as it is spelt you make an ass of you or U & me hence ASS-U-ME . God is in control and y’all can try to talk bad about the school or Jamaican’s but remember this when y’all wishing bad or as is said when your digging a hole please dig more than two ok . I read most of the blogs and for those who would go take Matters in their own hand well that’s your thing . The matter was dealt with in a professional manner and I am sure that after what has been said . The Correct decision will be made and move forward, in a positive light . To the haters y’all know what to do . If God is for you …
My son had the diarrhea for a few days before the abuse took place!! This happened on a Friday and it was only when I got home to bath my child is when the marks became evident!! This is when I then made contact with another teacher of the school. Keeping in mind that this was now at night!! I was then contacted by the teacher that abused my child, justifying her actions!!! I was told out of her mouth that when she first notice that he had mess himself that she gave him two lashes for messing and then took him to the bathroom where she then left him for seconds to get wipes, and returned to him with his underwear in his hand swinging. Then is when the teacher then said that she gave him four more lashes. Her excuse for the 14 distinct marks on my sons lower body was because she used her hand!!!!
I was contacted and asked to visit the school the Monday to discuss that matter further, which I then decided to take the matter to the police when it was reported!!!! Please note that I did not wait a week to report the incident!!!!
My son had not attended the school for a full month before this had happen to him!!!!
Prior to this my son would cry down the place every morning I was dropping him to school, which should had been warning signs for me!!!
I had and have no problems with anyone that owns or helps with the daily functions of this school!!!!!!!!!
Took me two months before I could have place him in another pre-school and within one week my son stopped crying to be lefted at school and actually now asks to go school.
My heart goes out to you. Thanks for your summary of events. This has been an unfortunate miscarriage of justice. Give your son beaucoup love,nurturing and caring along with therapy,if necessary.
Consult an attorney!!!!!
Best wishes to you and family.
You too damn lie you told me the child was at the school for only two days and the teacher give him two lashes. Stop with your lies, I am sick of it now!!! Take care that same boy turn around and bit yuh for how rude yuh training him.
He needed them! He’s probably custom to doing it home. NO kind of home training! IT STARTS AT HOME! Tell the WHOLE STORY TOO! On here looking sympathy. HE NEEDED IT! Can’t take back the licks! Deal WITH IT!
Why you don’t tell the truth as you told me. You said that the teacher told you that give the child two lashes on the bottom to discipline him. You went to the park with the child after school and notice a bruise on the child when you were bathing him. You also told me that a friend encouraged you to go make a report to the police when you told the teacher you had no problem with her discipling your son. Did you tell me that you take the child to the doctor the following Tuesday. This is total wrong of what you are doing and you need to look into yourself and your so call friends that are encouraging wrong.
Wow
Hmmm
Every body out there knocking the woman…but did anyone stop to think that this was shortly after Irma when alotta people were under stress (no water,no light, lines for food and gas, losing jobs, and unreasonable landlords, and deplorable living conditions when you lose everything) and some were suffering from PTSD and probably didn’t know it…I am not in any wise saying what this woman did was right…heck no…she was wrong in many respects…BUT I want us to start focussing on what might be an issue that has arisen in the Territory Post-IRMA…many people are suffering from the effects of PTSD and needed an outlet…don’t crucify her…
That is NO reason to abuse a child. Take your frustrations out another way, NOT on an innocent child.
Do you know the difference between abuse and disciple?? This is why our children are the way they are today!!
Chuupes give me a break stop blame Irma! I had 6 kids living under my roof after Irma and 2 toddlers messed up my bathroom with poop. I did not use the after effects of Irma to abuse them. Yes I was passed frustration, I was under pressure and lost everything while sleeping on the floor. No water nor electricity. EVERYbody suffered in some way. I bet if was YOUR child you would have been singing a different tune.
You my dear mean well but please understand this, you and your thoughts and outlook are the worse of the worse. Our children are in trouble and because of adults like yourself with whom they come in contact before and post Irma
You are not able to comprehend your dysfunctional outlook but may God have mercy on your misguided and damaged soul.
A 2year old infant,traumatized,t—— and t——– by a “trained preschool licensed teacher on work permit from a foreign country.license should be permanently revoked, she should be removed from the comm by imprisonment and deportation” the facility that employed her should be publicly revealed and the Director identified .An investigation at the school should be done in an attempt to identify possibly other victims.
The incident happened November 2016. What does Irma have to do with her behavior???? eh????
Huh?!?!? So is the media report incorrect in saying the court heard that the incident took place on “November 6, 2016”??? IRMA was September 6, 2017… that would make the incident Pre-IRMA, not Post-IRMA. So that reasoning does not hold at all. Unless the article is incorrect, and the incident actually took place in 2017…
And some dumb people say GOD aint good! My God is so good, that my last of 3 passed 23 yrs and he put me through menopause and man-on-pause so I cant get no children .. BUT,BUT AGAIN BUT, be mindful I have Grandchildren, my GOD , they would’ve done send me England where they use to send them bad boys from here …. MY GOD IS SO GOOD …
Hmmm!! Some of ya’ll just talking a load of crap!! I know as a parent some of ya’ll would have tapped your child if it was done in your home in hopes that the child wouldn’t do it again. The bible says ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’. Some of ya’ll so quick to place blame and judgement without all the facts. Teacher Sharon is an excellent teacher..my daughter has been in her care for a little more than 2 years and I’ve never had an issue with her nor the school. All the best to her…
A tap vs lashes. Can’ t compare
All i want to know is which school that?
Because could of never been mi pickany!
i would have been in a cell and she would have been Peeples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
furthermore them 11 lashes would of been to her face FOH !!
Spell it right, buh Peeples! Set of uneducated jack asses!
We tolerate too much nonsense in these Virgin Islands messon.
First of all, this happened two years ago and only now Shawn is finding her Innocent? $500 to be paid to the magistrate court but what happens to the family, to the child? She still has her job? This ruling coming a month after child abuse awareness. Nonsense! Many of these daycares have untrained, uneducated workers who almost always can’t find work anywhere else so they resort to working at a daycare as a last ditch effort.
There are tsunami and earthquake evacuation drills for the territory but when you think about it, the majority of these people working at day cares don’t drive, have no set transportation, and some could barely walk properly. In the event of a real emergency, how are they going to get all those little children to safety?
Its normal for a child to cry months days week .you set of idots spoil your child/ren from birth dont allow them to be independent. So when its time for him/her to go school tecahers have try comfort themthats why they fail soceity in so many ways and you set jackass trying figure out where i went wrong! I qas waiting on your post since lastnight. You miss out half the story thats not what you told me .you also said you got back your money in full why leave that part out .and for the record we both know that little kid is rude as a jail sentence .im not wishing bad for him but dont pull up your socks as a parent and see you will be sitting in one that same chair mrs salmon sat yesterday you also said the schoo did disciple the teacher.your child is not the 1st nor the last to go school and cry it all depends how you start grooming him/her its just like starting a new job or migrating somewhere new .we adults no cry we dont go with the energy we had from whence cometh .it takes awhile .you so unfair you took back your money .and you still went court ! You want double justice. Hope you feeling better now if this the forum you was seeking your last rewards remember trials comes in phases.you could have dealt with through this same forum but privately.got to think about the child’s future as well because if i have a school i want nothing to deal with you are your families. Parents should be able to talk things through. But this the case .its done hope you &company feeling accomplish pathetic. Be real put your feet in others shoes .all the best to you and yours .tips be a good parents not afriend to supply material things .peace love and unity all we need in this world .
You my dear mean well but please understand this, you and your thoughts and outlook are the worse of the worse. Our children are in trouble and because of adults like yourself with whom they come in contact before and post Irma
You are not able to comprehend your dysfunctional outlook but may God have mercy on your misguided and damaged soul.
A 2year old infant,traumatized,terrorized and tortured by a “trained preschool licensed teacher on work permit from a foreign country.license should be permanently revoked, she should be removed from the comm by imprisonment and deportation” the facility that employed her should be publicly revealed and the Director identified .An investigation at the school should be done in an attempt to identify possibly other victims.
My pist was in response to the above blogger,Post- IrmaPTSD.
it makes me wonder how many more kids she did this to.
Alot ayo here blogging, but ayo not talking how much money ayo owe that same school.time after time i saw you all come to court for not paying this said school,just to prove alot ayo parents are failing ,not teaching kids to respect people’s things and properties, .i even heard it with my own ears that payment plans set up and one big f***t pig in here you had the plan too cause you always saying its so convenient. Give jack him jacket set of badmind people ayo .solid as rock they just can’t stop us now .set up all the road blocks just cant stop us now .ayo say this and that just cant stop us now ..lot ayo parents driven fair in ayo own child/ren not awear of it so when ayo child/ren goes to school they feel teachers are pigs like ayo.. it works both ways sometimes they not even wana say bye to ayo miserables a***s irma had hit us tremendously. You expect after a storm the calm should be @ school with someone who didn’t secure them during the ordeal of that monster irma ayo people need to read more and talk less.mehson !
Wendy you the same knife that stick the goat will stick the sheep figured out the rest.
Once a man twice a child….you wait til your parents get old and lost their memory and they start doing things like a kids agin then you will know if a 2 year old in theit right mind. They are kids. They explore things. He dont have a clue whats hes doing, suppose he had do something else?. Why she leave the child unattentant?
Kids do al sort of crazy things. Al in the toilet bowl at home you would fine them playing. What a motherwil…….just laugh and shake her head
This is ridiculous the parents should sue the school and the teacher, S per another news site
Sharon Salmon, a 53-year-old teacher employed at the Home Away From Home Pre-school and Daycare, pleaded guilty to a charge of child cruelty, which was exacted against a two-year-old boy.
Really ??? A two year old?? Pshh he should’ve smeared the s**t on her face these jamaicans is something else maybe the chemicals from the bleaching cream too strong????