NASSAU-A magistrate today approved the release of social media personality Alesha McNeil on bail pending an appeal.
After spending 21 days in prison, McNeil, who is better known as Car Wash, will walk out of the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services tomorrow on $1,500 bail.
On June 15, Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes sentenced McNeil to three months in prison after she pleaded guilty to cruelty to children for beating her boyfriend’s seven-year-old son with a belt. The offence carries a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment.
McNeil, 23, did not have a lawyer at her arraignment. She told the court that the boy’s father gave her permission to discipline him.
According to McNeil, she was teaching the boy how to read and write. However, he was more interested in singing her song.
McNeil intends to appeal both her conviction and sentence.
She became a household name after videos of the full-figured woman dancing went viral.
Attorneys Ryazard Humes and Bjorn Ferguson made the bail application before Magistrate Forbes.
