Leonard Smartt also known as Osanti Benjamin, a 20-year-old of Laing Avenue, Georgetown, Guyana, South America, appeared at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman answering to a Simple Larceny charge which was committed on Aronco Construction Inc on September 23rd, 2022 at Providence, East Bank Demerara, Region 4.
A disturbing video circulated today, 7th of July, 2022, on social media which shows a group of persons beating, verbally abusing, punishing, and humiliating a young Guyanese woman for allegedly stealing a number of chairs from a church. Several public figures and organizations have come forward to condemn the act which can be described as using a computer device to humiliate a person. Laws have recently been drafted to criminalize the use of a computer device to humiliate a person.