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Delinquent youth escapes from mother at Stabroek Market
…missing from her custody since Tuesday last
On Tuesday last, an 11-year-old youth escaped from his mother’s custody after disobeying her instruction to
Troy Higgins
remain at her Stabroek Market stall.
Samantha Higgins, a vendor and mother of three boys, said, “I leave my son to watch the stall. I tell he wait there while I go to the back and use the washroom. When I return, I didn’t see him there, so I start looking around, but couldn’t find him.’’
Yesterday, after looking for days, the mother reported her son missing at the Brickdam Police Station where officers told her that he was recently identified at the station.
The lad of Bagotville, was last seen by police with another youth at the Brickdam Station, at midnight, Friday, after a conductor escorted and reported the two for fighting over ‘money’.
According to his mother, the officers identified the youth by a picture she presented. The lad was wearing the same clothes, ‘blue polo shirt and blue jeans’, when he disappeared. She said that her son recently completed the National Grade Six Assessment at the Ketley Primary School, and was selling plastic bags for her at the market when the holidays commenced.
His mother remarked, “This is not the first time my son escaped from me, but it’s the longest he disappeared. The last time I end up taking he to juvenile detention, but the police beg for he and give him a warning,’’ she said.
Samantha Higgins insisted that her son received no form of domestic abuse, and had no problems with her prior to his escape. She noted that he was just ‘delinquent.’
She expressed her worry about where her son sleeps at night, and how he has been eating after not having any money.
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