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Runaway Essequibo teen found in Kitty

Oct 29, 2008 News

After she ran away from home for approximately one week, 15-year-old Amrita Layne returned home to her parents, yesterday.
The teen, who hails from 32 Sea Road, Golden Fleece, on the Essequibo Coast, ran away from home last Wednesday after she was accused of stealing a cellular phone from someone at her Johanna Cecilia Community High School.
The teen’s mother, Dhanmattie Mohabir, told Kaieteur News yesterday that the family received a telephone call from a male individual on Monday night. The caller refused to reveal his identity, she said.
She added that the man informed the teen’s father that the girl was staying at the home of a woman in Kitty, Georgetown.
The mother said that the man even directed the girl’s father to the house, and upon checking yesterday, the father, along with some policemen from the Kitty Police Station, found the teen sleeping in the woman’s house at Kitty.
Kaieteur News understands that the woman is an employee at a Demico outlet. She offered the teen a place to stay, since she found her wandering around the place.
The teen’s mother said that the girl was taken to the Kitty and Suddie Police Stations respectively, where she refused to tell any of the police officers why she ran away from home, and what had transpired from the time she left home to the time she was found.
Up to news time, the teen was still undergoing medical examination at the Suddie Hospital.
Since this is not the first time that the 15-year-old has run away from home, her parents are now contemplating sending her to the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) in order to instill some discipline in her.
According to her mother, in October of last year, the young woman ran away from home after she was caught stealing a cell phone from the church that she attends.
At that time, she had sought refuge at her grandmother’s house in Berbice.
However, this time around, it appears as if the teen ran away from home for a similar incident.
On Thursday, the day after the teen had disappeared, the mother had said that she had received a telephone call from her daughter stating that she was at Vreed-en-Hoop with a ‘boy,’ and that she would return home on Sunday last.
The mother said that that was all her daughter would tell her, as she hung up the phone.
However, on Sunday, the teen never turned up at home.
According to the mother, a friend of the teenager would pass on messages to the parents, and she informed them that the young woman would be leaving Guyana for Suriname some time soon.
The worried mother noted that the friend, who refused to reveal her identity to them, was in constant contact with her daughter.

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