NASSAU-Social media personality Alesha “Car Wash” McNeil’s appeal against her child cruelty conviction will be heard on July 22.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes jailed McNeil for three months on June 15 after accepting her guilty plea.
She spent 21 days in custody before being freed on $1,500 bail, pending appeal on July 7.
Police arrested McNeil after she beat her boyfriend’s seven-year-old son with a belt. The child’s mother filed a complaint with police after seeing marks on the child’s back.
McNeil, 23, did not have a lawyer at her initial court appearance on June 15. She told the court that the boy’s father gave her permission to discipline him.
According to McNeil, she beat the boy because he was more interested in singing her song than learning how to read and write. She became a household name after videos of the full-figured woman dancing went viral.
Attorneys Ryazard Humes and Bjorn Ferguson represent McNeil.
Meanwhile, McNeil’s occasional collaborator Jonathan “Daddi Whites” Russell will abandon his appeal against his child cruelty conviction on July 22.
Russell admitted the charge after a video of him putting a Bud Light beer bottle to a two-year-old boy’s mouth went viral.
Known for his crass videos, Russell told the court he deleted the promotional video for a bar immediately after receiving backlash.
