17-year-old to face sentence for manslaughter

A 17-year-old of Mahaut who pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday will wait until March 17 to face his sentence.

Esau Hector had caused the death of his 42-year-old godfather Antoine Anthony on June 12, 2009 in the community.

He had inflicted a single stab wound to the Anthony’s upper abdomen which penetrated his lung and subsequently killed him.

According to the facts presented by Director of Public Prosecutions Gene Pestaina Anthony was stabbed when he sought to correct Hector who had been rude to an elderly person in the area.

Pestaina said Anthony died of hypovolemic shock due to the wound.

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17 Comments

  1. Notorious
    December 27, 2011

    For a coconut wii he kill de man.

  2. Queen
    March 16, 2011

    Nomte I hope that you are resting in peace.The Etienne’s miss you and your coconuts.

    This guy will be punised.

  3. payday loans 12th st northern phoenix
    February 21, 2011

    I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

  4. ALAS
    February 19, 2011

    the government again. there is clear distinction b/tween the court and the government…….so the law is there to be used…ig why cant a man be sentence to death when he kill another person? ah? isn’t that law? so hat cant the government do when the judge says i sending him to do community service or 4 years in jail? we want to lay all blame at the foot of government when people fail to do dr work they are paid to do.

  5. "LET LOVE PREVAIL"
    February 16, 2011

    Well dear readers, what more can be said? Can we see the end of the world on the horizon? These are some of the signs that the end is near. Can you imagine if GOD were to allow this generation to continue, what would happen to the world. As someone said before, in days gone by, we had to respect everyone or else. Today you cannot tell those young people anything. It’s a shame and disgrace to DA and to the world as a whole. That’s why MAY 21st, 2011, will be the end of it all.

    • Anonymous
      February 19, 2011

      no one know the day, hour or min when the father above will return

    • blessed
      March 18, 2011

      it seams as if u have a specail insite into God’s mind, but woe be unto u, if u are blasphiming againsgt Jehovah the one true GOd Almighty!!! continue trying to scare ppl do u have something planed for his world in May???? all i can say is woe unto u May the lord forgive u n have mercy on not just ur tongue but ur SOUL!!!

  6. BMB
    February 16, 2011

    STOP THE SENSELESS KILLING!
    If you phyically hurt a man…tomorrow you can apologize to that man!
    If you steal from a man….tomorrow you can give back to that person or pay him equal value!
    but…If you KILL a man…there is NO TOMORROW…you can never make it right with him or his family!

  7. met veye
    February 16, 2011

    make an example of that man send him where he belong for an extended period.lucky is manslaughter he was charged with it should be murder to let him hang.

  8. ONE LOVE
    February 16, 2011

    8-O satan cannot correct sin

  9. YES RASTA
    February 16, 2011

    Send mr to prison. Or the law should truely hang mr.
    If it was my family I swear I would be the one waiting for my sentence.
    Send him to jail n waste his life. So he wanted it. Hard labor jail.
    In that way the others will learn

    • PRAISE
      March 17, 2011

      what foolish talk is this. are you a man or a zaman ? what man fights fire withe fire . lets pray for justice for the family of the victim . not forgetting we all have children most times they turn some other road we didnt show them .

  10. Muslim_Always
    February 15, 2011

    This is the end of times. The prophet Muhammad said in the end of days there will be senseless killings all over the world. He explained the end of times in great detail.

    I’ll be watching.

  11. laplaine
    February 15, 2011

    dat boy kill his godfather and left two boys fatherless, my heart goes out to the children.

  12. A Voice
    February 15, 2011

    Boy, I remember in my days if you were ever caught saying a bad word, or past Ma so and so or Mr so and so straight without greeting them good day, you got a smacking from them and another one when your parents learnt of it.

    Today, the yute man disrespecting the elderly, being called on by another elder, his god-father nonetheless, and the yute turn round and kill the man.

    We have surely deteriorated as a society. And the best joke is that he wasn’t caught with a couple pounds of weed, so is a slap on the wrist for him. This is what happens when we spare the rod and spoil the child.

    I watchin’ still…

  13. Dread!
    February 15, 2011

    Dice said a young man who does wrong may find redemption but hmmn… not when they cannot accept correction noh! So if what they said is true, that he stabbed the guy because he corrected him for being rude to an elderly person, well chew noh fan! And we wonder why the younger generation is going to hell… smh…

  14. Godson
    February 15, 2011

    The Government need to take some harder stand when dealing with crimes today, some of those people needs to be Hanged. By doing this some body will think before they act.

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