12-year-old was kidnapped, abused – aunt

One day after Police found a 12-year-old girl who went missing in Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), her family is holding out that she was kidnapped and abused by a teen who is an acquaintance.
The girl’s aunt, during a telephone interview Guyana Times, related that while at the Wales Police Station following up on her niece’s disappearance, she received a telephone call from an unknown person informing her that the child was spotted in Whim, Berbice.
“They told me to come to the area… she then tell me to contact the nearest Police station… the Police took down the information… and then he send it to Police stations in Berbice. However, Thursday morning around one o’clock, they called me and they tell me that they find her and let me come to Whim Police station.”
The woman posited that she immediately contacted the Wales Police and informed them that the child was found.
“When I go, we took her to the welfare and they send she to do medical. However, she told me that when she was coming by me she see this boy, she said she know the boy because she talk to him already. She said she see when he pull up in a car and he ask she where she going and she say she going by she aunty.”
“He ask her where she aunty live and she tell him and he scramble her hand and pull she in the car and she start hollering. She said how the window screen was it was wind up so nobody could hear she. She said the driver told her to keep quiet and lie down and do not raise up.”
The woman said her niece was beaten about her body to keep silent. She said the child told her she was taken to a house in a strange place where she was introduced to the boy’s mother as his girlfriend.
“She said when she reach there, it was the boy mother and sister with him. She say when he carry she, he mother say this is who, and he turn and say this is he girlfriend and she said no I am not his girlfriend, and he mother walk away.”
“She tell we that the sister turn and say, carry back this girl wherever she live because she is a little child, and she say the boy start a quarrel with them…when the boy father came home, he asked why they didn’t take her back.”
Sometime later, the family claimed that the young man took away the child’s phone and destroyed her sim card, and started to abuse her.
“She said she kept asking him to give her a call to call her family and he told her that he does not have a sim in his phone. She said she even ask the sister for a call and she too say she doesn’t have a sim in her phone.”
The woman explained that after finding her niece, she confronted the boy’s mother.
“I told her that a mother to a mother if you see a child at your house why you didn’t contact the nearest Police station? This is wrong. But all she told me was that she didn’t know anything.”
She added that the girl remains traumatised and has been complaining of pains as a result of the abuse.
“I want her to get counselling, I don’t care if it is every week. I want her to get it off her mind so that she can go back to school and take in her education,” she said.
Police had reported that acting on information received, they went to a house at Whim Village, Corentyne, and conducted a search where the child 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.