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Jul 12, 2011 News
It might be a case of human trafficking or just another teenager running away from home but the relatives of a 14-year-old Angoy’s Avenue girl is desperate for her safe return.
What is certain is that the girl is missing.
The teenager, Shameeza Kabeer, disappeared on Saturday and although she has made telephone contact with her relatives, there is the belief that she is being held against her will.
The relatives also believe that a close relative of the teenager is involved.
The teenager’s aunt, Indira Boodhoo, told Kaieteur News, yesterday, that the teenager left home on Saturday afternoon to attend youth service at the Smythfield Church. The service normally lasts from 16:30 hours to 18:00 hours.
But instead of returning home immediately after the vocation, the relatives learnt that she was collected by her 23-year-old female cousin Natasha and has not been seen since.
According to Indira Boodhoo, when the teen did not return home on Saturday night, relatives contacted the cousin via cellular phone, and were told that the girl had left to go home.
But then on Sunday, the teenager made contact with her worrying relatives and told them of a horrifying ordeal that befell her.
She claimed that after seeing her cousin off, she was awaiting transportation to take her home when a blue car pulled up alongside her and one of the occupants ‘scrambled’ her and forced her into the vehicle, which sped away.
The teenager claimed that a man and a woman were in the car.
The teenager explained that she could not say exactly where she was but she was sure that she had crossed the Berbice Bridge and two other bridges heading west of New Amsterdam.
She also stated that she was being held in a house that was heavily grilled and locked up.
When asked how she acquired the cellular phone to make the call, the teenager told her relatives that she had found it in the house.
But her relatives believe that she was given the phone to make contact with them and was being tutored as to what to say in answer to their questions.
“Like somebody was around her when she made the call, telling her what to say because she taking long to answer the questions,” Boodhoo told Kaieteur News yesterday.
Meanwhile, the teen’s relatives remain suspicious especially given the conflicting responses they had been receiving when contact was made with the cousin, Natasha True.
According top reports, Natasha True and her husband were deported from Trinidad some time back.
According to Boodhoo, when contacted, and asked to come to their Angoy’s Avenue residence to clear things up, the cousin always came up with excuses.
“She keep saying ‘I am in town’, ‘I am at the Bourda Market’, ‘I am buying load at Skeldon’,” Boodhoo said.
The woman is convinced that the cousin is aware of the teenager’s whereabouts since, “she was the last person to see her and how she operating, it look like she got the girl,” Boodhoo stated.
She claimed that this is not the first time that the cousin has been linked to a missing teenager and relatives are of the view that she is using the teens for illegal activities, amounting to human trafficking. The matter has been reported to the police in Berbice and a massive investigation has been launched.
A few weeks ago, a 17 year old was charged for staging her own kidnapping and demanding money from her relatives. A few weeks ago also, two other teenage girls were reportedly abducted under still mysterious circumstances.
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