Man punished for beating sister over text message

A Concord man who punched and squeezed his sister’s throat after she sent him a text message of which he disapproved,  has been sentenced to pay EC$1,500 by April 30, or spend three months in jail.

Henderson Gordon appeared before Magistrate Candia George on Friday morning where he pleaded guilty to a charge of battery.

The court heard from a police prosecutor that when confronted Gordon told police, “Officer I go to punch her in her mouth but I took her in her head.”

According to the prosecutor, Gordon’s sister had sent a text which allegedly made unsavory remarks about his mother and father.

Upon reading the message, the defendant went to his sister’s workplace and began assaulting her.

According to the police she had to be rescued by co-workers.

Before passing sentence, Magistrate George advised the defendant to seek anger management counseling.

She also encouraged him to try to resolve the issue with his sister and not to repeat his actions in the future.

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44 Comments

  1. arawak
    February 7, 2012

    I never kw we concord pple cld be so violent!! Whoosh. Ђѯ damn rude. So young n wan hit woman ahready.

  2. Ma Mary
    February 6, 2012

    Boy look how far we have come from the days of Green Gold when we used to meet next day at the end of each episode to discuss what Goberre was doing in the cemetary. For those of you too young to remember Green Gold was a radio Drama Series much like young and Restless, that was performed by People”s action Theatre in the late 70s early 80s when we had curfew and political unrest and Dominicans had to be home at a certain hour. We had no TVs so we all tuned in to Green Gold and it was exciting. Today we expressing our views in a sophisticated forum like DNO. And some of us still missing the point, Instead of sharing well reserched and informed views we go off on tangents attacking others and displaying an astronomical level of ignorance.Zor sorti wivay avec sorttay

  3. baby
    February 6, 2012

    but dont u think she was wrong ,,he should do it agian some weomen rtoo bold

    • Justice and Truth
      February 7, 2012

      @ baby

      You must be a baby who obviously has not yet matured to childhood much more to adulthood.
      Never encourage or condone violence. As an adult and if you are a practicing Christian of all, surely you should know better than that. For an adult, not even babies would think as you do.

  4. Anonymous
    February 6, 2012

    aye yow check dat i dere pull up seein how much ppl dreadin the magistrate but how all u just want to jump on the lady case so nuh fadda afterall man the lady cannot go beyond wat the law say how to sentence or wat the penalty is eh or else she aself wud be breakin the law so yow she cannot exceed the punishment if the law never state dat u check so she govern by law to so i just checkin some of all u comments doh makin no sense

  5. tiny
    February 5, 2012

    @ kamptcankta aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww….you are so brilliant and insightful!!!!!!! :wink:
    to compare a brutal beating of a woman by her brother ……to a mother getting knocked in the head with a rock by a daughter who probably did it to defend herself….the police did not charge the daughter….so what do you think….do you know who started the fight? whether it was the mother or daughter?………… not only that but it’s two women fighting each other as opposed to a man taking advantage of a woman….that poor girl didn’t stand a chance against him……again you are much too smart and insightful for me :wink: Jesus loves you too my love…..i am so happy that you had a good life….we all deserve it

    • Justice and Truth
      February 7, 2012

      @ tiny

      The mother probably asked that her daughter not be charged. If there were any charges, she could have withdrawn the charges. She could have done this for peace sake. I hope that the daughter learned a lesson, to be respectful to her mother and to curb her temper.

  6. really concerned
    February 4, 2012

    Everybody talking about wat happened between brother and sister!!! Some even saying they wud do the same don’t you people get it she was reacting to how she grown up in hert home I grow up with out a father and he still don’t want nothing to do with me but that’s his lost!!!! I still find that it could have been settled in a more grown up way!!! Don’t you think

  7. February 4, 2012

    A brother beating up his sister that’s strange :oops: :oops: 8-O

  8. Anonymous
    February 4, 2012

    :twisted: :oops: :?: :-P

  9. tiny
    February 4, 2012

    Ok people you know the deal already this is my thing………………………skerrit…….I am pleading to you……..our laws must be revised …..a man viciously attacks his sister in the most horrendous way possible and he gets fined…….this man should have been sentenced to a minimum of a year in prison………..so you mean in Dominica as long as you have money to give to the government you can assault whomever you want?……..this country is beyound primitive……..

  10. joe
    February 4, 2012

    and just imagine she talked about their parents .had it been somebody else talking about his parents it would be at least ten times worst

  11. Uneven
    February 3, 2012

    do we really have anger management facilities for those who qualify? or are we just spurting Jargons because we are privileged to do so?

  12. ann
    February 3, 2012

    I tell you eh,telephone really mashup we life!!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. forreal
    February 3, 2012

    i wonder what was on that text anyway,maybe she just reminded, him that he need to check his parents better than how he might be doing,and he felt offended,it got some man so,because look at it, is two of them parents right,so what could his sister tell him that hurt him so bad,is she a hater of her parents to.

  14. family member
    February 3, 2012

    anything is news in this country eh. These news editors need to get their facts straight before publishing. Hmmmmmmmm…… Not everything u read is the truth eh people. I think this page is just for amusement piss mwen tay la!

  15. paul
    February 3, 2012

    information from DNO is wrong the text send was not about his mother AND FATHER it was about each other personnal life because she did not respond to his text he travel to her work place and punch her. get the fact straight DNO when at court listen before write. for those who think the law was low educate yourselves ok.

  16. Excuse
    February 3, 2012

    No woman desreves to be beaten .. but to travel all the way to her workplace implies that te text related to thier parents must really be out of place.. men take these insults agaist their parents seriously… gotts be careful just saying.. but my friend you really need anger management .. cant go about beating ppl for their chats especailly woman

    • Justice and Truth
      February 3, 2012

      @ Excuse

      Some people could find themselves in situations they never expected. He had no reason to go to her workplace and injure her. He could have killed her. Never attack anyone for it is primarily a crime.
      You know that there are two sides to a story. Something must have happened or said between both of them.
      Are you aware that the pen is mightier than the sword? I shall say in this day of computer keyboards, “mightier are the fingers” on the keyboard. He could have replied by Text but hopefully not in a derogatory manner.
      I am one who will do my utmost to live at peace with others but there are some people who are cantankerous and cannot live at peace with others. They will always find something critical to state, be it through envy.
      I have a way of handling such a situation if per chance anyone hurts my feelings (we know and or will meet such people). We may not respond immediately. I may just ignore such people and cease communication with them. This would be a better route to avoid a confrontation or quarrel, be it over the telephone.
      I may also write a letter and without insulting them but directly addressing the issue and making my point clear. I write in such a manner, outlining their words and attitude and informing them how I feel, that they will feel bad about it. Yes! In most cases they will apologize. Whether they mean it or not I will never know but God knows.
      What she stated caused him to be angry. It created a rift and enmity between them and his parents. It could also cause injury and death. Certain words could hurt and sting. As the saying, “Be careful of stones that you throw”. In addition, two wrongs do not make a right.
      Some people are in dire need of the grace of God to be godly in words and deeds and to live happily and peacefully with others. Sadly, the world is filled with many such people. My conclusion is also that they will never live a happy and peaceful life for what they generate to others they will also reap it and two-fold.
      We must learn to utilize psychology.
      I hope this man will benefit from the anger management course. He is in dire need of it. May God assist him.

  17. tiny
    February 3, 2012

    @ reader….he gets away with it because it is acceptable behavior in Dominica….I’m sure he punches his daughter or will punch his daughter when he has one….beating with a belt is no different…….those kind of beating Dominican parents give their kids is abuse ….but like i said before only kids are allowed to be abused

    • Anonymous
      February 3, 2012

      TINY SOMEBODY ABUSED YOU ? WELL IF SO GO ASK YOUR PARENT FOR FORGIVENESS.MY REMEDY TO YOU ALL NOW YOU SHOULD BE GETTING BEAT WID A GUAVA WIPE YOU TO DAMN MOO- MOO-

    • no idiot
      February 4, 2012

      To Tiny…One think that not tiny is your mouth….lol

  18. ....
    February 3, 2012

    that magistrate need a beating herself :-x

  19. grell
    February 3, 2012

    oh by now you all dont know the money goes to skerro and tony.to the crime and just pay a small fine so outrageous this magistrate needs to be i jail.bullcrap

    • apache
      February 4, 2012

      you are upsidedown.you are a volkswagon.the engine behind

    • true Dominican
      February 5, 2012

      so All of sudden a man squeezing his sister throat and skerite fault. woaw. Shame on you

  20. Man in Dominica
    February 3, 2012

    How does paying a fine amount to just punishment for this kind of assault? This wasn’t even a simple case of someone losing temporary control over his emotions–HE TRAVELED TO HER WORKPLACE and then assaulted her in front of everyone else. Someone like that has serious problems, maybe even still believes that he did nothing wrong, that he was entitled to hit his sister. No mere words give you the right to physically attack someone else.

    • Sout Man
      February 3, 2012

      “….maybe even still believes that he did nothing wrong, that he was entitled to hit his sister”.

      You right about that boss.He figured it was an accident when he stated, “Officer, I go to punch her in the mouth but I took her in the head”. Like it wasn’t his fault he took her head. He did not even realize that the mouth is part of the head and he could have knocked off her teeth.

      Anyway, one year for touching a butt, but $1500 for a savage beating. Go figure!! Oh, maybe first time offender!!

    • Shameless
      February 4, 2012

      Lucky for him that this sister of his is not my wife or girlfriend. He or someone acting on his behalf would be online now shopping for an artificial right arm. Some men are just to damn wicked and inconsiderate. Anger management? Yeah right, I sure would have delivered some anger management on him.

  21. February 3, 2012

    wow… let’s hope it wasn’t our fellow blogger *TINY*…

    • tiny
      February 3, 2012

      you crazy….those kind of thing there cannot happen to tiny again….well they can happen but it what will happen next

      • tiny
        February 3, 2012

        correction…but is what will happen next!!!!!!

      • Anonymous
        February 3, 2012

        ALAS TINY U NEED TO SEE DR BENJAMIN :twisted: :twisted:

      • Kamchatka
        February 3, 2012

        Alas poster who goes by the name of tiny. It seems you have had a very rough life wiii. One time you giving parents blows…now you saying won’t be beaten again or else. Way papaa.

        Jesus loves you.

  22. Reader
    February 3, 2012

    What an outrage? I hope Alix Boyd-Knight and the other “concerned” Dominica women take to the airwaves on this one. A MAN puch up his sister until she had to be rescued by co-workers and he gets charged ONLY $1500 (with 3 whole months to pay it). Are there no sentencting guidelines? Are sentences imposed based on how our magistrates feel this morning or it their spirit take you or not? This animal puch up a woman like she is punching bag and a woman magistrate gave him a slap on the wrist? What an outrage! Shame on you Candia! Shame on that turd that beat up a woman!!

    • Tiger Eye
      February 3, 2012

      So the “woman” magistrate should have imposed a stiffer sentence? In your world there are different laws for men and women.

      She should have sent him to prison for assault, but not because the assault was by a man against a woman. Crime is crime.

    • Mr Sout City
      February 3, 2012

      Oh shut your trap. I would have done the same if any of my sisters texted me disrespecting our parents.

      • Sout Man
        February 3, 2012

        I bet you would not. You know it. Take that back and regain your respect. Men do not beat women; only boys do.

      • Man in Dominica
        February 3, 2012

        Then you have the same self-control as a child.

  23. so_silly
    February 3, 2012

    i would do the same thing. disrespectful

  24. tiny
    February 3, 2012

    and is the same thing i was talking about………..boys have a better time at it than females……..mothers beat their daughters more….fathers are more strict with their daughters…….so a male and a female child raised in the same home could have total different experience….almost like they were raised in separate homes

  25. ..........
    February 3, 2012

    yes sah! d devil outside eh

    • February 3, 2012

      The Book of Revelation, all this shall come to past

  26. tiny
    February 3, 2012

    typical behavior in Dominica households………that’s how issues are resolved in homes….it’s just that nothing is done about it when parents do it to kids………

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