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May 16, 2013 News
Up to press times yesterday the two teenage girls, Gillian Gilgeous, also known as Celene, and Ashana Persaud, both 15, who were reported missing for two weeks, were in police custody assisting with investigations.
This publication was told that around mid-morning, residents of Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice called in the police having seen the girls’ photographs in the newspaper. Reports are that the girls had been in the village for the past two weeks and would stay at people’s homes after befriending them.
There are also reports that the girls were seen at nights in the company of older men but no one suspected anything suspicious as the girls presented themselves as foreigners.
The girls, after being found at the house, were taken to the Central Police Station, New Amsterdam and their relatives were called.
The mother of one of the teens, Ranie Benn, said that the girls disappeared two Fridays ago and did not make contact with any relative.
Not even on Mother’s Day did Gilgeous contact her mother. Both girls lived under the same roof in Benn’s home. Persaud is said not to be any blood relative.
Benn told Kaieteur News that Persaud has been living with her for the last five weeks before her disappearance. According to her, the teen got “put out” from where she previously resided.
She explained that Persaud is “my daughter-in-law’s sister. She use to live with she aunty dem but like they put she out. She come by we and I just couldn’t put her on the streets.”
Benn also related that “she (Persaud) de tell me that she was 17, and is only now de whole thing break out and we hear she is 15 and like she is a road girl…All de time she living with me she wasn’t working and I told her that I can’t tek care of she all the time.
“Is only de other day she get a wuk at a Chinese store. Is only now I know the truth of the story and why she family didn’t want her in the first place.”
According to Benn her daughter was never one to pull a stunt like this and she believe that her actions resulted from the influence of Persaud.
Two men have been arrested to assist with investigations; “a big Chinese man that de deh with the other girl, and me daughter li’l boyfriend from school.”
The woman said that after her daughter disappeared, she ventured down to the school she attended— Sophia Training Centre— where she made inquires and found out about the youth who has apparently been in a relationship with her daughter.
She also found out that the same night the teens disappeared, they went “sporting with the school boy and the big Chiney man.”
Benn said she was told that the girls were last seen at the Berbice Car Park.
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