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Dec 24, 2013 News
Family members of 18-year-old Faith-Ann Watson of Lot 360 Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, East Bank Demerara are worrying about the fate of the young woman after she failed to return home from a shopping trip to Georgetown on Saturday.
Simone Watson, the girl’s mother, said that her daughter had arranged a shopping trip to purchase a pair of shoes that she needed to attend a wedding later this week. The senior Watson said that the plan was that she would accompany her daughter to purchase the shoes.
However, after receiving an emergency call from a local shipping company, she instead made a rushed trip to Georgetown that morning to uplift the cargo without her daughter.
“I don’t know if she plan it like that because she tell me that she wasn’t ready when I was leaving,” the mother said.
She said that four hours later, while she was returning home from her trip to Georgetown, her daughter called to notify her that she was in a car heading to the city to purchase the shoes. Watson said that her daughter would normally travel in taxis and as such she did not think it strange that she did not opt to travel to Georgetown with a bus.
“I told her ‘Okay’ and to ‘Make haste and come back home because of the season,’” the mother recalled.
Watson said, “Yes Mommy” were the last words she heard from her daughter. Although she made allowances for the traffic that comes with the season, the mother admitted that she became worried after her daughter did not turn up later that evening. She however dismissed the concerns, expecting that since the girl had not returned home, she would have gone to spend the night at a West Ruimveldt relative, as she had done in the past.
The woman said that she had not called the relative to confirm this belief until Sunday morning. To her dismay, she found out that her daughter had not turned up at the relative’s home, nor had she shown up at the homes of any other relatives. She added that she is aware of just one of her daughter’s friends but failed to make contact with her.
Further calls made to the girl’s cellular phone were all forwarded to the electronic mail box.
The woman is now appealing to the public that anyone with information that would assist in locating her daughter make contact with her on telephone numbers 696-7364, 261-5892 or the nearest police station.
A missing report was lodged at the Kuru Kururu Police Station and investigations are ongoing.
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