A teenager was given a suspended jail term for his part in a burglary which left an 85-year-old woman traumatised and frightened in her own home.Denzel Chase, 19, of North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish, admitted receiving a $4,000 gold, diamond and sapphire ring stolen during the break-in at the Smith’s property.According to prosecutors, he sold on the valuable piece of jewellery for just $112 to a gold exchange company. It has since been recovered and returned to its owner.Chase was sentenced at Magistrates’ Court to six months in prison, suspended for two years, and his existing probation order was extended for a further two years.He will have to continue wearing an ankle bracelet for the time being so his whereabouts can be monitored and he’ll have to abide by a 10pm to 6am curfew.Crown counsel Susan Mulligan read out a statement from his elderly victim, Elizabeth Bickley, to the court.The senior, who lives alone, said she woke during the early hours of November 30 last year to find her home had been broken into.“I was incredibly shocked to see muddy footprints on the carpet of my spare room,” she said. “This is when I realised I had been burgled while I slept.“I was in shock and got no more sleep that night. I called my daughter at 4.30am to tell her.“I spent the entire next day in shock. During the course of the days and weeks that followed, I feared for my safety in my own home, suffered tremendous anxiety, could not sleep and lost my appetite, which led to weight loss.“Before the break-in, I was relatively self-sufficient, but my daughter has had to check on me every day since then, just to make sure I am on okay.“My doctor put me on medication for anxiety and a sleeping pill to help me sleep. Then I sank into a depression, which required me to take more medication. It is clear to me that this experience has traumatised me.”Ms Bickley said six months after the burglary she still felt “unsafe and fearful of being alone at times”.“This is a experience that I will now, unfortunately, never be able to forget.”Ms Mulligan said Chase committed the offence soon after being released from a six-month sentence at the Co-Ed facility, imposed after he was convicted of stealing a handbag and possessing an imitation firearm.“He’s taken what was an opportunity to turn his life around and turned it into a disaster by reoffending while on probation,” said the prosecutor.She said Chase, in accepting the stolen ring, was partly responsible for Ms Bickley’s trauma and distress.“I think a real short, sharp sentence is necessary,” she said.Simone Smith-Bean, for Chase, said though he pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods he never knew the items were stolen.She said 19 was a “very young age” and urged Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo to impose a community-based sentence.Chase told the court: “I’m remorseful. I don’t like to see people suffer like that, like the lady that was traumatised. I am sorry for everything that has happened.”Mr Tokunbo said receiving stolen goods fuelled and encouraged burglaries and had to be discouraged and deterred.He ordered Chase to undergo intensive youth counselling as part of his probation and return to court for a progress report in October.