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Missing mentally challenged girl spotted in the city

May 03, 2012 News

 

– mother believes she is human trafficking victim

The mother of the 17-year-old mentally challenged girl who disappeared last week is convinced that her daughter is being held against her will and is a victim of trafficking in persons.
The woman and other relatives continue to comb the city and other areas in search of the teenager who went missing a week ago after she was taken from her Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara home by a friend of her family, with the consent of her mother.
The family friend, who was arrested by the police and subsequently released, had told investigators that the mentally challenged girl ran away from her while they were walking in the city.
The teenager has a history of being sexually assaulted and being used as a sex slave by young men in the city.
She had told this newspaper some horror stories of being locked in different houses in the city where males would take turns having sex with her.
Investigators were told that last Wednesday, the day that she disappeared, the teenager was last seen talking to a mixed race woman who reportedly has connections to a human trafficking ring in Guyana’s interior.
But the missing teen’s mother is of the view that her daughter is still somewhere in the city and the woman is desperate to find her before she is sent to the interior.
The woman told this newspaper that she has been receiving information that her daughter was a possible candidate for an interior prostitution ring but thanks to someone who knew her, she was spared–if only temporarily.
“We hear they wanted to take her into the bush. Some other girls gone. But somebody tell them that they know (missing teen) she head ain’t right, so they leave she out,” the mother told Kaieteur News.
The woman said that she subsequently checked several parts of Georgetown and from the information she has gathered, the missing girl is somewhere in D’Urban Backlands.
“We show people she picture and they say that ‘yes’ they see she. Dem boys around the Bourda Market area tell we that she went around there and they gave her money to buy food but they ain’t see her back,” the woman said.
Although the matter has been engaging the attention of the police, the teenager’s mother is not too satisfied with the action they have taken so far.
She claimed that the woman to whom she had entrusted her daughter the day she disappeared has not been seen since she was released from police custody.
The woman said that the police appear to be taking an indifferent approach to the matter, since she was told that her daughter was a “mad girl”.
“Every day I does cry. I don’t have much money to go searching everywhere. And I know that people are taking advantage of my daughter, they did it to her several times. They does beat she bad. Sometimes she does come home battered.” The woman said, adding that her daughter is very attractive and would be often noticed by the opposite sex whenever she happens to be wandering around the city.
During a previous interview with this newspaper, the teenager spoke of being introduced by a female acquaintance to a Brazilian man who had paid her $10000 to sleep with him for a night.
Her mother believes that the mixed race woman who the teen was seen speaking to on the day she disappeared is the person who is holding her against her will and is using her to solicit money from males in exchange for sexual favours.
“People say they saw her wearing short pants in town, walking with a mixed race woman. She did not leave home with a pair of short pants,” the mother said.
She told Kaieteur News that her daughter uses medication for her condition, and since it has been days since she disappeared, she is fearful that the teenager’s situation could worsen.
She is appealing to anyone who has seen her daughter or knows of her whereabouts to contact the nearest police station or contact her on telephone number 220-9684.

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