to assaulting a nine-year-old girl with a running shoe.

Magistrate the Wor. Cheryl-Ann Mapp also ordered a social inquiry report on John Pacheco of North Shore after he admitted hitting the girl on the back with a shoe.

Police Sgt. Kenrick James, prosecuting, told the court that at the time of the incident last November Pacheco was married to the girl's mother, and lived on Harrington Hundreds Road in Smiths.

The girl and her brother were in a bedroom making noise when their mother asked them to be quiet. The children continued despite two more requests to be quiet. Pacheco then took a soft sneaker and hit the girl on the back. She was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to be treated for bruises.

Pacheco told Mrs. Mapp that he was going to hit her on the bottom but that she moved at the last second causing him to hit her on the back. He said the incident had taught him there were better ways to correct a child such as taking away a privilege.

DOG OWNER FINED AFTER ACCIDENT CTS Deborah Patricia Reiss, of Harrington Sound Road, was fined $150 on Tuesday for allowing her dog, Penny, to stray.

Sgt. Rex Osborne, prosecuting, told the court that on April 17 Reiss' six-month-old puppy collided with a passing motorcycle on Harrington Sound Road. "The motorcyclist was taken to the The King Edward VII Hospital where he was treated for knee injuries,'' Sgt. Osborne said.

He added that the puppy sustained an injured spleen but because of her youth was able to recover.

Reiss said: "Penny doesn't normally go near the road, she usually stays in the yard. We live quite far from the road.

"On that day, she followed a neighbour who was walking one of Penny's playmate's Coco.'' Reiss told the court there was a wall and a fence in her back yard and the only reason she had not put in electric fencing was because she intended to sell the house.

STOLEN MONEY SPENT ON PARTYING CTS Social inquiry reports were ordered last week for two women who admitted to cheque-related offences which netted them more than $2,000.

Theresa Pamela Landy and Shermaine Janice Riley, both 20, admitted using the stolen money for drinking and partying.

Landy was charged with 10 offences, and Riley with three.

Landy asked for 12 similar matters to be taken into account, and Riley asked for five others to be considered.

Sgt. Rex Osborne prosecuting, said that on March 9 Landy had gone to her mother's job in Southampton to help with housecleaning duties. While there, she found a book of 10 cheques belonging to Ms Lonnie Wittich.

Landy took the cheques and went to the MarketPlace, where she purchased a case of beer and cashed a cheque for $375.

On May 11, Landy went to Eve's cycle livery and cashed a cheque for $320 and rented a cycle. Later she gave Riley a cheque for $875, which Riley cashed at the Bank of Bermuda. The total money spent was $2,470.50.

Mr. Francis ordered a social inquiry report for both women, and set the matter for mention on July 8. Both women were bailed in the sum of $500.

MAN IN CORT FOR IGNORING SIGNAL CTS A Warwick man was fined $150 for littering and failing to comply with a stop signal.

Magistrate, the Wor. Charles-Etta Simmons found Jeffrey Trott guilty of failing to stop when signalled to do so by a police officer in the Birdcage on Front Street on May 13.

He was also found guilty of littering eight days later when the police officer tried to issue him with a summons at his home. Following an argument with the officer, Trott crumpled the ticket and threw it down.

Mrs Simmons found Trott guilty on both charges and fined him $50 for the traffic offence and $100 for littering.