Latest update December 4th, 2024 2:40 AM
Linden teen missing after leaving to work in interior
Edmond Junior
A Linden man is searching for his 18-year-old son who the family has not heard from for just over three months. The teen left his home in Linden six months ago to work with a gold miner in Issano Big Landing.
According to Rawle Kattow of Canvas City, Wismar, his son Edmond Junior, also known as Junior Kattow, left his Linden home without his permission to work with the miner on July 17, last.
Kattow said that after leaving home for the interior, his son would on a regular basis make contact with his mother via the internet. But after realising that her son was no longer calling home, Edmond Kattow said his wife thought that this was because there was no cell phone signal in the area.
“He would call every week or two weeks or so, but he stop calling his mother since October. 2017, and she thought was because he had no signal,” said Kattow.
Kattow, who also worked in the Issano area, said his wife was reluctant to make a police report because of the place in which her son works, and thought they should wait until Christmas or January, the month of his birthday, to see if he would make contact with them.
“We thought he would call for Christmas or at least his birthday, because I say if he don’t call all the other times, I know for sure he will call for his birthday,” Kattow explained.
The father said he returned home from Issano 14 miles in December, and upon his return to Linden, he decided to make contact with his son’s employer to get information on his whereabouts, but was told that his son was no longer working with him (employer).
“I called him and he told me the boy left to go where I was working, because I work in Issano too. I called him again, but this time he said the boy left to go work with someone else closer to his (employer’s) camp,” Kattow told Kaieteur News.
The inconsistency between the two stories, Kattow said, has caused him to become worried.
He said he visited the Wismar police station to make a report. The officer, to whom he made the report, said a missing person report would be sent out. The officer said an investigation would also be done.
After a week with no word from the Wismar station or his son, Kattow said he went back to the police station, but was told that officers there can do nothing more than what was already done.
“I went back to the police station to find out what was done, they say ‘I thought you coming to tell us you find your son.’ They tell me they can’t go out and look for him,” he explained.
In an effort to get more information about exactly where his son is, Kattow said he is constantly trying to contact his son’s former employer.
“We have been calling his phone and not getting on to him, one time we called and asked him for the number for the internet phone the boy used to call his mother with, and he said he don’t know the number…and we never get on to him again,” said Kattow.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Edmond Junior, also known as Junior Kattow, can contact his father on 643-6191, 686-4745 or 692-3073.
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