Last week Saturday, Danette Pierre left her home, leaving behind her three children and mother, to “make a turn.”
Friday made it a week that she has not been seen or heard from. Her mother, Donna Pierre, 63, believes her daughter is alive but is in danger.
“Something is not right. In the pit of my stomach is that she is being held. I am not having that negative feeling. If I have a negative thing, it might be one per cent. My 99 percent is that my child is alive,” she told Guardian Media during an interview at her Petite Morne Settlement, Ste Madeleine home yesterday.
Donna said usually if Pierre had plans to go out she would inform her, but she did not tell her anything that day. Recalling her last interaction with her daughter, the youngest of her five children, she said Pierre had just sent her two older children, ages 13 and seven, in the bathroom.
Pierre, 31, received a phone call while her teenage daughter was in the shower around 8:30 pm.
“I heard her say, ‘well my daughter bathing when she finish I’ll organise.’”
When her granddaughter had finished bathing, Pierre got off the chair in a haste and went to shower.
Donna said Pierre, dressed in a blue jeans, a jersey and a “crinkled” light blue shirt “as though she was just going in the grocery” and told her “mummy, I just making a turn to come back now.”
She was wearing a pair of slippers and left with only her brown purse. “My child don’t walk the road no where with a ruffled up,” she said.
Pierre was not accustomed using public transportation, but Donna said she did not hear a vehicle to indicate that someone picked her up.
Donna dozed off.
When she realised around midnight Pierre was not home and had not called or messaged her, she tried to reach her on her cellphone.
The phone kept ringing but Pierre did not pick up. She then contacted her friends who had no idea where she was and had not heard from her.
On Sunday, a missing person report was made at the nearby police station.
Since then, she said, officers from different sections including the Anti Kidnapping Squad have been in constant communication with her. She added that the police and members of the Hunters Search and Rescue Team have looking for her daughter.
“I am really impressed at the response I have been getting...They have been checking in on a regular basis. The last update yesterday was that they have some leads and they are on the field,” she said.
Describing Pierre as responsible, she said her daughter “don’t stay out” and “go out without checking in” and is very involved in her children’s lives. “They are her backbone, her life,” she said.
The two older children have since gone by their aunt to stay while the last child keeps kissing his mother’s national identification card.
She believes that Pierre would not have told her if she was in trouble or threatened because she wouldn’t want to worry her.
Donna began living with daughter last July. She said at that time her daughter was living at Goodwood Park but there was a “serious incident” and “we had to get out.”
They stayed by a friend from September to October and then in November they moved to Ste Madeleine.
She said Pierre owns an online clothes business.
Donna has been praying a lot and she has a message for her daughter’s “captors.”
“Let my daughter go! What allyuh want? Why allyuh holding her.” It have to have a reason. It is something they want. My whole stomach is that she is being held against her will she can’t come home. She would never not be there for her children for this period, it’s too long,” she said.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact the police at 555, 800-TIPS, 999, any police station or through the TTPS App or website.
