AFTER AN INTENSE five-month legal battle in which authorities prosecuted them for not sending their children to public school and then sought to remove the children from home, a Rastafarian couple has triumphed.
Yesterday the High Court tossed out the Child Care Board’s application seeking custody of Ijui Jah (Charles Lashley) and Sistren Isartes Ibre’s (Kim Jackman) two children, a 12-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl.
The relieved parents said they had no hard feelings towards the child protection agency.
“They had to understand the socialising was not suitable for the youth and they were not raised in that environment. It is good to see that the ministry understood and realised that they made a mistake and rectified it. In the end we all greeted each other and hugged. There was no bias now. People can make mistakes,” Ijui Jah told the MIDWEEK NATION hours after the decision by acting Justice Cecil McCarthy. (TKS)
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