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Missing mother feared kidnapped – parents receive threatening text message
By Fareeza Haniff
Twenty-two-year old Shalini Pereira reportedly made telephone contact with her mother, Bibi Nesha on Thursday informing her that she is safe and they must not worry.
But despite constant pleading by her parents, Pereira refuses to tell them where she is. Her mother said that she kept crying uncontrollably over the phone.
The mother of one has been reported missing since July 10, after she and her four-year-old son left her parents Good Hope, East Coast Demerara home to return to her husband’s residence in Fyrish Village, Corentyne.
She never turned up at her husband’s place, but instead, she sent her son to his father with an 11-year- old girl from the village.
On Wednesday, her parents appeared on the NCN 6 O’ Clock News pleading for her to return home. Various contact numbers were given on the air for persons to contact them if they know the whereabouts of Pereira.
After that news item was aired, the family received a threatening text message from 555 saying, “If you want to see your f**king daughter alive, then do as I say and I will keep you posted. Don’t f**k up.”
According to Nesha, the next day she along with her husband visited the Vigilance Police Station and reported the incident.
She said that the ranks there told her that they cannot trace the text message, since it may have been sent from a computer.
On Thursday, Pereira’s parents then went to the Albion Police Station, where some officers accompanied them to the home of the missing woman’s mother-in-law.
Upon turning up there, the woman informed the officers that Pereira had just made contact with her and asked for her parents’ telephone number.
However, the mother-in-law said that she did not have the number and gave Pereira the telephone number of the Albion Police Station instead.
The missing woman then called the station where she had the opportunity to speak with her mother there. Despite pleading with her daughter to reveal her location, Pereira refused to say where she is staying, but kept assuring her mother that she is safe and that she should not worry.
However, Nesha noted that her daughter kept crying throughout the course of the conversation and said that she cannot tell anyone where she is and can’t give out the telephone number that she called from.
After much persuasion, Pereira then agreed to meet her mother on the Canje Bridge in Berbice. Nesha said that she waited on the bridge for hours, but Pereira never showed up.
Her mother is now under the impression that Pereira has been kidnapped, since she cannot disclose her location and since she did not turn up to meet her.
Kaieteur News understands that in March of this year Pereira and her husband had a domestic dispute and since then, she moved out from the house and has been living with her parents at their Good Hope, East Coast Demerara home.
On July 10, last, Pereira decided that she wanted to return to her husband, and as such left her parents home under the impression that she was heading for Berbice.
Her parents were told that she had visited a friend in the village and borrowed $200 from her to go to New Amsterdam. It was the same friend’s daughter who took Pereira’s son home to his father.
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