Ak­ile Si­mon

Ten-year-old Reneca Ghent, the Diego Mar­tin school­girl, who was ab­duct­ed near her home by a man pos­ing as a PH taxi dri­ver, has re­ceived coun­selling at her school.

Ghent's aunt Er­i­ca St Louis said she met a psy­chol­o­gist from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion's Stu­dent Sup­port Unit yes­ter­day. Dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view, St Louis said Ghent was pro­gress­ing af­ter her or­deal on Sat­ur­day. "She is com­ing along well and is ex­pect­ed to meet with the psy­chol­o­gist again to do a fol­low-up," St Louis said. She was con­fi­dent the sus­pect would be caught by po­lice. Mean­while, West­ern Di­vi­sion de­tec­tives were ex­pect­ed to ob­tain video footage from cam­era in­stalled at the Fam­i­ly Court at Nipdec Build­ing, Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain, where Ghent and her grand­moth­er, Lor­na Pen­co, board­ed the man's ve­hi­cle and asked to be tak­en to Gopaul Av­enue, Diego Mar­tin.

Ghent, of Vespree Lane, was re­leased some three hours lat­er af­ter she was tak­en for a "joy-ride" by the man who threat­ened to throw her off a cliff at Fort George if she did not co-op­er­ate. Po­lice said based on the de­scrip­tion giv­en by the child and Pen­co a sketch would be de­vel­oped in an at­tempt to iden­ti­fy the sus­pect. Po­lice be­lieve the man may not be from the Diego Mar­tin com­mu­ni­ty. The sus­pect drove off with Ghent in the back seat of the ve­hi­cle, mo­ments af­ter Pen­co came out of the front pas­sen­ger seat. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.