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Jasmine Hartin Sits Down With Cherisse Halsall
And, as we close tonight we have a tease of what's airing in tomorrow night's news. Our Cherisse Halsall just finished an extended interview with Jasmine Hartin, the woman accused of accidentally killing Superintendent Henry Jemmott. Now, she's also a mother in the middle of a bitter custody dispute with her former partner Andrew Ashcroft and the Ashcroft Alliance. She discussed how she's been treated by the Alliance since she's been accused of killing Jemmott. Here's a clip of that interview:
Reporter
"What's been the reaction from the Ashcroft family since you've been accused of manslaughter. How has their position towards you shifted?"
Jasmine Hartin
"Since the accusation of the manslaughter - from what I've been told by the family they were instructed to distance themselves from me immediately, that they couldn't have bad press associated with their reputation. So, therefore I didn't have any family come to visit me in jail, I didn't have any family call me, instead a couple friends came to see me, but never once was I allowed to speak to the children during that time. I didn't speak to their father; I didn't speak to any family members at all. My brother from Canada he did try calling me and then my mother was worried sick, but they were trying to communicate through Andrew and he was just keeping them at bay telling them that I was fine and that I got visitors everyday and it was a little bit exaggerated from what my mother, I am sure wants to tell you."
Reporter
"And so, this is why she screamed at him at why he lied to your family. Based on what your relationship with Andrew was prior to this incident, how shocked are you that he has been since then distance himself to this degree?"
Jasmine Hartin
"Like I am still shock, because even though like Andrew and I we've been together 7 years. We are not perfect, there's been ups and downs, we've definitely had a complicated relationship. It's been hostile many parts of the 7 years, but we are up, we're down and even with all of that though I can't believe how I've been treated."
Again, we'll have the full interview in tomorrow's news.
