Teen admits to faking own kidnapping

A teenager is in hot water after she admitted to faking her own kidnapping on Monday.
Reports are that the 18-year-old claimed that she was abducted about 13:00h at Jimbo Bridge, Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) by persons unknown.
Police in a statement on Wednesday evening said that the teen, who was eventually found at the Kitty seawall, was interviewed at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown by investigators.
During her interview with Police, the teen said she has been suffering with depression for about five years now and on several occasions inflicted wounds on her body.
Detailing the plan to fake her kidnapping, the teen told investigators that on Monday about 08:00h she contacted one of her friends via cellphone and asked her for a place to stay for a few days “to cool her head”. She said that she told her friend that she was feeling flustered and was drifting further into depression.
According to the teen about 10:00h, she left her home to conduct business for a relative after which she met with her friend on Main Street, Georgetown who gave her the keys to the house on the EBD and also informed her that a taxi would be waiting on her.
She then proceeded to her friend’s house at Jimbo Bridge, Grove. She stated that while in the house she was feeling mentally and physically tired, so she inflicted injuries on her stomach, legs, arms, and back with her fingernails.
In her statement to the Police, the teen said that on Tuesday, she took a pair of scissors and cut off her hair, and scratched her face because she was feeling the same way. Asked about burn marks visible on her skin, the teen said that she had inflicted those on herself on Sunday with a metal comb.
She told investigators that about 16:45h on Tuesday, she left the house, joined a taxi that was provided to her by her friend, and proceeded to the Kitty seawall, Georgetown in hope that someone would see her and call her parents. She said that it was while at the seawall she decided that she would tell her parents that she had been kidnapped.
Police said that the teen further stated that while on the seawall she saw someone from her church, who called her parents and took her over to Brickdam Police Station. At the station, she told ranks who interviewed her that she had been kidnapped and a probe was launched.