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‘Passa passa’ causes headache for mother
…as dancing son disappears
Shellon Sandiford, a 28-year-old Alstrom Alley, Christianburg mother of three is at her wits’ end as she ponders her next move in locating her son, Shelton McAlmont, whom she has not seen over a year now.
Sandiford, who is a single parent, said her 15-year-old son ran away from home in January 2008, and she has not seen or heard from him since.
Sandiford said that Shelton, a student of the Wisburg Secondary School, became a very popular child after he got involved in dancing for money. She said that her son is a very good dancer.
According to the perturbed woman, it was the whole “passa passa thing” that led her son astray. Shelton reportedly became involved in the passa passa dancing craze from the age of eleven, even before he wrote the National Grade Six Examination.
Shelton McAlmont
“People used to call this boy and pay him a lot of money to dance, many times unknown to me; sometimes I would be at home and the next thing I know is he gone to town, or somewhere else.
“It reach to a point where I couldn’t control him,” Shellon Sandiford related with tears in her eyes.
One relative said that Shelton’s preoccupation with the dance craze might have been responsible for his poor performance at that examination, and even later after he entered secondary school.
Sandiford said that after Shelton went missing she made a report to the Wismar Police Station, and subsequently made another report to the police at Number Two Canal, West Bank Demerara after she was told that Shelton was seen in the area.
She said that while on the West Bank she spoke with a few people, who said that they had seen her son but couldn’t say where he was at the time. One person even speculated that Shelton may have gone into the interior.
The woman admitted that her son was unruly and often caused her untold embarrassment, but she acknowledged that he is her son, and she wants him to return home.
She is pleading with anyone who has any knowledge as to the whereabouts of Shelton to make immediate contact with her on telephone numbers: 442-1126, 442-1749, 442-1494 or 688-1391.
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