Latest update February 14th, 2025 8:22 AM
Runaway teen remains missing after five months
Runaway teen, 15-year-old Donna Wong
A Kara Kara, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway man is pleading with his 15-year-old daughter who ran away from home to return.
Ronald Wong said that his daughter, who was then 14 years old, left his home some time in August last year and has not returned.
The man said he decided to go public with his story since the police seem to be doing nothing to help him locate his daughter, Donna Wong, who is now 15.
According to Wong, some time in mid-August, he woke up one night and noticed that his daughter was not in the house. The man said he began searching the house but was greeted by his daughter’s night gown under the house.
The man added that he immediately went to the home of one of the child’s aunt’s to see if she was there, but she was not.
“The next morning, I went to the police to make a report at the Mackenzie Police Station, and the police refused to take my report…They just tell me I must keep looking around,” Wong claimed.
The distraught father said he has sought the assistance of the head teacher of the school which his daughter attended prior to her disappearance, but no one can seem to locate his daughter.
According to Wong, he also visited the Welfare Department in Linden, and was at the time bluntly told by a social worker, “Man, is Carifesta time; dem young people does want li’l fun.”
The man added that he did not want to go public with the matter because he was hoping that his daughter would have returned home with some assistance from the police.
“Since she left, she call a couple of times and tell me she coming home, but when I ask she where she deh, she does hang up de phone; and she never come back home,” Wong said.
The man said that the last call he received from his daughter was the week before Christmas.
During that conversation, Wong said, he informed his daughter that he would go public with the incident and she again hung up the phone. The man said that on the occasions he had heard from his daughter, he did manage to get the phone number from which she called.
However, he noted, whenever he made a call to the number, a woman would always say, “Sorry it’s a wrong number”.
In the meantime, the girl’s mother subsequently made a report to the police about the incident. Wong said that the numbers he was able to identify are 690-6502 and 680-5422. He said that he has also forwarded them to the police.
Wong said it has been six long months since he last saw his daughter, and there was no problem at home which would have caused the child to run away.
“We have a very good relationship at home, but is boys she running behind, and a gang that she join at de school,” Wong said.
The man said that this is the second school term that his daughter has missed.
According to Wong, some time during the latter part of last year, people reported that his daughter was seen attending a school athletic activity.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Donna Wong is asked to contact her father on telephone number 660-9467, or the nearest police station.
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