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Apr 26, 2012 News
-police arrest woman who took her from home
Less than a week after her harrowing story was published, a 17-year-old mentally challenged girl has disappeared from her home once again; but this time the police have detained a city woman who relatives believe might have made her into a victim of trafficking in persons.
The woman had taken the mentally challenged teen from her home in Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara on Tuesday, agreeing to take her back some time later that day.
However, both she and the teenager disappeared, sending the missing girl’s relatives into panic.
A search was launched on Tuesday night, while the woman could not be contacted on her cellular phone.
The woman was however seen in the city yesterday by one of the missing teen’s relatives and could not give a proper account about the girl’s whereabouts.
This newspaper had carried a mini feature on the teenager’s plight; a tale that involved her being lured away to abandoned houses in and around Georgetown where she was repeatedly gang raped.
In most cases she was treated like a sex slave, as her captors collected money from persons whom she was forced to perform various sexual acts.
In most cases the teenager was lured to these locations by friends or other persons whom she trusted.
No one was arrested for the previous sexual assaults.
Kaieteur News was told that on Tuesday a female friend of the girl’s family went to their home and offered to take her out.
At first the teenager’s mother was reluctant to allow her to go with the woman but she was convinced that her daughter would have been returned home before nightfall.
“She (family friend) told the mother that she could take care of (teenager’s name). She said ‘she (teenager) would not behave bad with me’. The woman told the mother that she was just going to BV,” a relative of the missing teen told this newspaper.
“The mother was of two minds but she didn’t want her daughter to feel that she, the mother, was locking her away from the outside world. Besides, she knows the woman,” the relative added.
So, the teenager was allowed to go with the woman.
As night began to set in, the teenager’s mother became worried and tried to contact the woman to find out where she was with her daughter.
After several unsuccessful attempts she gave up and eventually contacted the police at the Sparendaam Police Station, after alerting other relatives.
As Tuesday night passed with no word on the teen’s whereabouts, an intense search was launched in the city yesterday morning.
A relative later managed to locate the woman with whom the teenager had left her home.
According to relatives, the woman related an “unbelievable story” about the girl “running away from her.”
They contacted a police rank who detained the woman and took her to a police station where she was questioned about the missing teenager.
“First she claimed that she carry the girl to collect some clothes. She say how they went to Alexander Village, Sophia and Fish Shop, all kinds of things she talking,” the teen’s relative told Kaieteur News.
The relative said that the woman was eventually taken to the Sparendaam Police Station for further questioning and there she gave a different version of events.
“She told the police how she was walking with some Trinidadian boy and the (missing teenager) was walking at the back. She said that when she look back the (missing teenager) run away,” the relative recalled.
The police also are not convinced by the woman’s story and are detaining her while the search continues for the missing girl.
“She say how the girl runaway; why she didn’t run behind she? It was she who was responsible for the girl. She didn’t even call the mother to say that the girl had run away,” the relative said.
“The police tell her she will have to find the girl,” the relative added.
The family is hoping to find the teenager soon, since they fear that it could be weeks before she returns home after being sexually battered again.
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