A 35-year-old female domestic worker has been charged by the Police with the offence of child stealing, in accordance with Section 90 of the Criminal Law Offences Act Chapter 8:01.
She is expected to appear at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer to the charges made against her.
Police on Saturday said that because the matter involves a young child, they cannot reveal the circumstances that led to the incident.
In July last year, a 50-year-old domestic worker of Corentyne, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), was remanded for kidnapping a child from her biological mother.
She had made her appearance before Magistrate Crystal Lambert at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where she was not required to plead to the charge which stated that on July 3, 2020, she was in possession of an 11-month-old girl who went missing in March.
The woman was arrested after Police swooped down on her Kildonan Village, Corentyne home and discovered the child.
Then Regional Commander of Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), Linden Lord, had confirmed that a report of kidnapping of a child was lodged with the Police.
He had said that the child’s mother is a 24-year-old Venezuelan.
It was reported that on March 5, 2020, the biological mother reported to the Police that the woman, who worked with her at the Quartz Stone Backdam in Cuyuni, was tasked with taking care of the baby after she fell ill.
The woman promised to take the child to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment, but she never returned.
“The 11-month-old baby apparently had spots on her skin, and she gave the woman the baby to take to the hospital, and she was supposed to return in two weeks, but that did not happen,” the then Commander had stated.
After the domestic worker did not return with the child, the matter was reported to the Bartica Police Station. She reportedly told Police that the mother of the child was supposed to collect the baby but failed to do so.
