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Missing N/A teen found in Corentyne residence

Jul 15, 2011 News

– husband and wife detained

Police have detained a Corentyne woman and her husband, following the discovery at their premises of a 14-year-old New Amsterdam girl, whose relatives were in a state of panic since she failed to return home for four days.
On Wednesday at around 16:00 hours, the teenager, Shameeza Khubeer, of Angoy’s Avenue, was found in the company of a female relative and her husband at a house at No. 48 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. The police had acted upon information received.
The girl had told relatives that she was snatched and bundled into a car by a male of African descent, who was in company with a female of East Indian ancestry while she was awaiting transportation to take her home. She had earlier attended a youth service at the Smythfield Church.
The teen contacted relatives via cellular phone and told them that she was locked in a house that was heavily grilled and did not know where she was.
The police were contacted and an investigation was launched. The media was also involved in efforts to have the teenager return home safely.
But police in a press release yesterday said that further investigations have revealed that Shameeza Khubeer’s story of being abducted was false.
Relatives had suspected that a cousin who had been in the company of the teenager after she had left church was responsible for her not returning home.
But while Khubeer has reportedly insisted that she went to the house of her own free will, her relatives are still convinced that she was forcibly detained and prevented from returning home.
The police explained that after Khubeer was found, she was questioned along with the female relative and her husband, who are assisting with the investigations.
Speaking with this newspaper yesterday, Khubeer’s aunt, Indira Boodhoo, related that the female cousin had indeed accompanied the teenager from church.
She said that contrary to reports that the cousin had left Khubeer to make her way back home, she had encouraged the teenager to go to her house.
Boodhoo claims that when Khubeer declined, insisting that her parents would be worried, the cousin persisted and managed to convince the teenager to go with her, promising to accompany her back home the following day.
According to Boodhoo, the next day the cousin refused to let Khubeer go, instead advising her to contact her parents and tell them that she had been kidnapped.
“Like they threaten she that if she didn’t do it, they gone come and bun down she parents’ house,” Boodhoo told Kaieteur News.
She said that the teenager has remained mostly quiet during questioning by her parents.
“The police advised them not to pressure her. But is like a shame on the family,” Boodhoo stated.
Khubeer was taken for a medical examination, and according to relatives, she was not sexually molested.
Her case is another in what appears to be a growing incidence of fake kidnappings and suspicious abductions within recent weeks.
A few weeks ago, a 17-year-old teenager was charged for staging her own kidnapping and demanding money from her relatives, while two other female teens were reportedly abducted under still mysterious circumstances.

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