Missing 14-year-old: Police charge relatives for “stalking” suspected TIP house

It is now one week since a 14-year-old girl of Jetty Squatting Area, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, went missing.
The child reportedly disappeared after dropping her little brother to school and now her family is pleading with the public to help them find her.
Fourteen-year-old Varshnie Ramdass, a student of Windsor Forest Secondary School on the West Coast of Demerara went missing on Wednesday, October 13.
The young lady had earlier in the day dropped her brother off at the Vreed-en-Hoop Primary School. Since then, the child never returned home and all efforts to locate her have proven futile.
The girl’s mother, Pinkey Ganga told Guyana Times that her daughter was last seen at about 11:30h and she was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a grey top.
The woman related that she and her daughter had plans to visit the Vreed-en-Hoop Secondary School for her to be enrolled there.

“On Tuesday morning I told her to go to Vreed-en-Hoop school and find out… when she found out, she said that they said they were going to registration on the Wednesday… so she had to drop her brother and come back home so that we can go and talk to the Head Mistress. She left and she never come back,” the woman said.
The worried mother also revealed that the day her daughter went missing, she recalled giving her $15,000, her personal documents and a one pennyweight gold chain to put in a pouch, which she was carrying at the time.
She said before her daughter went missing, she had no problems at home, and did not show any signs of frustration or sadness.
“She didn’t seem like anything was wrong … she always had a shoulder purse so said when she come back, we don’t have to look for nothing else so everything was already in the purse…Varshnie them father died and I does get public assistance for Varshnie other brothers and sisters and everything was in the same bag that she leave with.”
“She doesn’t have no friend or nobody that she does leff house or go by neighbour place and keep company. She is not like that, anything else not she… that is how she does behave,” the woman said.
The woman added that calls were made to relatives and close friends but no one has seen or heard from her. As such, a missing person’s report was made at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station.
“She give we a complain about couple months ago that a boy use to molest her and her stepfather meet with the boy parents and complain. She said she don’t like the boy and how he would approach her. She said that he like she but she too small for that. We went to his mother and we tell them and they apologise,” the grieving mother explained.
The woman said since her daughter’s disappearance, they have been receiving phone calls from persons saying that they saw Ramdass in the company of the said man, or a man fitting his description. As such, she visited his home, and they were told by his grandmother that she has not seen him for days.
Ganga said that she also went looking for her daughter in Crane, WCD, where it is being alleged that the man took her.
“This is a house where people accuse a woman of keeping young girls and putting them to sell their body. The Police cooperate with us… we went and get two Police at Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station and we went to the house in Crane and they searched but nobody was there,” she explained.
The missing child’s mother said she is unaware if her daughter is being held against her will, but, if she is not, she is pleading with her to come home.
The woman said some family members were also arrested and charged on Monday, after revisiting the Crane house on several occasions with the aim of finding her daughter. Relatives said that the house is reportedly a known haven for Trafficking in Persons activity. Police were unable to comment on the matter on Tuesday.
Anyone who might have seen Varshnie Ramdass or have any information on where she is, is asked to call telephone numbers: 603-8147, 673-3793, 636-3133, 602-0570 or the nearest Police station. (G9)