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Apr 28, 2013 News
Relatives of the five Guyanese women who have alleged to Barbados officials that they were “trafficked” are convinced that the young ladies are lying about what really happened. Kaieteur News yesterday managed to contact the relatives of the young women.
Graclyn Reid, whose 19-year-old niece is involved in the matter, says that she is convinced that the young girl is lying. According to Reid, her niece made similar allegations last year against another aunt.
The woman told Kaieteur News that her niece has implicated three persons who have no knowledge about “trafficking her”.
Reid further told Kaieteur News that her niece was in Barbados for over six months.
The woman said that her niece would call, text and send money to her from Barbados. “She used to call her family, send money and everything…She never one day said nobody was keeping her against her will,” Reid told Kaieteur News.
The woman further told Kaieteur News that it was no secret that her niece would go into Guyana’s interior and work. Reid further said that if something was wrong her niece would have said so from the inception. The woman said that she is convinced that her niece is probably the person who concocted the “trafficking” in person’s allegation.
“I know my niece…she’s a corrupt person. I know it got to be she who is making the rest of the girls say that they were kidnapped,” the aunt said. The woman said that she could not comprehend why her niece would be lying on innocent people.
The mother of the 17-year-old girl said that she was unaware that her daughter was doing anything of that nature. The woman told Kaieteur News that she had sent her daughter to her mother who resides in Barbados. “I sent her to Barbados on vacation…I didn’t know she got caught up in that.” the mother stated.
The woman told Kaieteur News that she would speak to her daughter regularly and she never mentioned being kept against her will. She further stated that her mother was arrested following the incident. According to the woman, her mother who is 76 years old woman has been charged in connection with the suspected trafficking of the five Guyanese women.
According to the Barbados Nation Newspaper the police confirmed last night that Joan Fernandez, of Eagle Hall, St Michael, was charged Friday and was scheduled to appear before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court Saturday morning.
This is the latest development after Amelia Joseph and Keenon Chase appeared in court on
Monday and Tuesday facing 30 charges of suspected involvement with the trafficking of five Guyanese women here, aged between 17 and 21 years old. Chase has been remanded to HMP Dodds while Joseph, who is pregnant, was granted bail.
The five women were held wearing bathing suits after a raid on a Nelson Street bar last Thursday led by the police’s new Sex Crimes and Trafficking Unit.
This newspaper was told by the relatives that no one in Guyana has received any threats from anyone. Relatives also noted that they have tried contacting the women through a lawyer, but were told that they were prosecution witnesses. They said, too, that an attempt was made to contact the Guyana Consulate in Barbados, but are yet to receive any word from them.
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