Angelica Rosemary Carney pleads guilty over threats at West Kempsey IGA
A woman standing in a supermarket checkout line called a pregnant mum a ‘sl-t’ and threatened to punch her five-year-old daughter amid a torrent of abuse.
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A woman standing in a supermarket checkout line called a pregnant mum a ‘sl-t’ and threatened to punch her five-year-old daughter amid a torrent of abuse.
Angelica Rosemary Carney, 39, called the young girl a “spoilt little brat” and ”a little dog” before threatening to punch and kick her.
She also threatened to attack the girl’s mother and threw a cup of gravy at a store supervisor.
Carney pleaded guilty in Ballina Local Court to intimidation intending to cause fear of physical or mental harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assaulting a police officer on duty and resisting an officer performing their duty.
Court documents detail how Carney intimidated the 28-year-old mother at the IGA supermarket on Elbow St, West Kempsey on August 12 at 6.30pm.
She was waiting in the checkout line at the grocery store with her daughter when she heard Carney make the brat and dog remarks.
“I can‘t stand spoilt little brats. If that was my kid she would be at home getting her c--t punched in, I feel like beating her out the door now,” police state Carney said.
The woman told Carney to not speak to her daughter like that and received threats herself.
“Oh, yeah, you too, I’ll get you too you little sl-t,” police say Carney said.
The mum told Carney she was pregnant and asked her to “get away from me” as she tried to leave the store.
The court heard the shopper was scared she was going to be bashed, so she pushed Carney away.
IGA shift supervisor James Hartley placed himself between the women, giving the mum a chance to rush to the police station.
When Carney saw Mr Hartley trying to phone Triple-0, she threw a cup of gravy at him.
It splashed onto his pants as it landed a metre away from him.
Carney then punched Mr Hartley in the mouth, causing “immediate pain to his lower lip and shock”.
She then paced back and forth calling him a “white cracker” and then punching him again in the mouth as he tried to block her with his arm.
Carney told Mr Hartley “you don‘t want to fight me” as a fellow shopper yelled to leave him alone.
Carney then walked toward the shopper but Mr Hartley, fearing for the shopper’s safety, pulled her back by the jacket and locked her outside the IGA.
When police arrived, Carney stood up with a bottle of red wine in her right hand and emptied the contents onto the ground.
The police tried to defuse the situation but she responded aggressively and lunged toward Senior Constable Nickolas Moulds.
Carney spat on the officer and began to raise the wine bottle before he sprayed her in the eye with capsicum spray and took her into custody.
Magistrate Karen Stafford said involving the child made Carney’s actions “more serious”.
“She told you that she was pregnant and you kept following her and she was worried that you would bash her … and you threw gravy at someone and punched him in the mouth causing him to bleed,“ Ms Stafford said.
Ms Stafford said spitting on a police officer was wrong and Covid-19 meant such behaviour could “cause fear or real harm“.
“There has been fighting in jail and you have a problem with alcohol and drugs,” Ms Stafford said.
“With all these factors, you would not be suited for a community corrections order as the community wouldn‘t be safe.
“You don‘t understand the impact alcohol has on you.”
Defence lawyer Binnie O’Dwyer said Carney only been out of prison for a week, had experienced all “the usual stuff” from growing up in a foster home and was intoxicated at the time of this incident.
“She acted in an inappropriate way and it was a wrong time- wrong place for them, and for her in a way,” Ms O’Dwyer said.
“She has 13 and 14 year old boys who live with an Aboriginal family and she has been in custody for two months.”
Ms Stafford convicted Carney and sent her to jail for 12 months with a four-month non-parole period.
Police documents state Carney is known to the Grafton area but has been sleeping on the streets of Kempsey.
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