12-year-old reported missing found in Berbice

…3 persons arrested

Three persons have been taken in custody after a missing 12-year-old child was found at their Corentyne home in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
On Thursday, at about 00:50h, acting on information received, Police went to a house at Whim Village, Corentyne and conducted a search. The child, a 12-year-old student of Wales Primary School, West Bank Demerara, was found at the house. The occupants of the home – a father, mother and their teenage son – were all taken into custody at the Whim Police Station, where they are assisting with the investigations.
Just one day prior to this development, relatives had reported the child missing after she left her grandmother’s home on Monday morning to go to her aunt’s home, located just five minutes away, but never arrived; and her family was desperately trying to find her.
Reports are that the girl, who hails from Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara (WBD), has been living with her 74-year-old grandmother since her mother died some four years ago, while her father resides at Enmore, East Coast Demerara. After she went missing, the family had contacted the girl’s father, and he indicated that he had received a call from his daughter the same day, asking if she could visit him. After ending the conversation with the child, her father said, he had made several efforts to contact her again, but all the calls had gone unanswered.