{"id":3933,"date":"2017-07-06T17:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2017-07-23T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T17:34:46","slug":"granny-told-police-she-gave-teen-three-licks-with-a-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/granny-told-police-she-gave-teen-three-licks-with-a-whip\/","title":{"rendered":"Granny told police she gave teen three licks with a whip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two days after 17-year-old, Jael Thomas was found dead in her home, murder accused, Millicent Cornwall-Roberts told police she was still trying to figure out if it was her fault the teenager was dead.<\/p>

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During a police interview, the 70-year-old defendant told investigators she beat her granddaughter with a whip after she snuck out of the house on September 21, 2014.<\/p>\n

Inspector Theodore Horne, read the contents of the interview in court this afternoon.<\/p>

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The accused told police, Thomas had snuck out of the house about six or seven times before the incident and would sometimes be away from home for days.<\/p>

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She said on that occasion, Thomas returned about\u00a03 a.m<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0the following morning accompanied by two young men.<\/p>\n

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Jael Thomas, deceased<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She told the investigators she held unto the teenager\u2019s clothing and gave her three licks with a whip before taking her into the house.<\/p>

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The accused said while in the house Thomas told her she couldn\u2019t walk and showed her a cut on her foot.<\/p>\n

The grandmother recalled throwing surgical alcohol on the wound and said it bled a lot.<\/p>

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She said Thomas crawled into her bedroom and wrapped the foot in a pillow then asked her to wrap her up because she was cold.<\/p>

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The teen\u2019s mother later came and discovered her dead in the bedroom.<\/p>\n

The defendant said she loved her granddaughter and was trying to protect her from the outer world.<\/p>\n

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