Bail two years after child beating video

Two years after she was remanded to prison when she was allegedly caught on camera beating an infant girl, Jamaican national Yanique Taylor-Gobin has been granted bail.

Justice Gillian Lucky yesterday granted Taylor-Gobin her own bail of $100,000. She was also ordered to return to court periodically to be monitored and report twice each week to the St Joseph Police Station.

Tayor-Gobin is to return to court on December 20.

She and her Trinidadian husband Dexter Gobin, of Rafferty Street, Maracas St Joseph, are before a Tunapuna magistrate on two charges of wilfully assaulting a child, on May 17 and 24, 2015. The court referred to the toddler as “Baby Esha” to protect her identity.

Gobin had been granted $150,000 bail to be approved by a clerk of the peace, while his wife was remanded at the Women’s Prison at Golden Grove, Arouca, after she was denied bail because she had overstayed her time in the country.

The couple were married in April 2015. Taylor-Gobin has been in prison since her first court appearance on October 26, 2015.

In the video, which went viral, the child was beaten by a man who force-fed her a bottle of baby milk. The charge was laid indictably under the Children’s Act.

Attorney Rajiv Persad represented Taylor-Gobin at the High Court bail hearing.