SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

Po­lice have de­tained a man af­ter a 13-year-old girl who went miss­ing was found in an aban­doned house in Khan­da­har, Arou­ca last night.

Priya Su­chit will be in­ter­viewed by the po­lice Child Pro­tec­tion Unit at the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion to get fur­ther in­for­ma­tion.

Ear­li­er in the day, her moth­er had ap­pealed to the pub­lic for any in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the girl’s where­abouts, be­liev­ing that she was ab­duct­ed on Thurs­day night.

In an in­ter­view at her home on Fri­day af­ter­noon, Suni­ta Su­chit said her daugh­ter, Priya, was last seen around 7 pm on Thurs­day.

The teen had gone to her un­cle’s home a short dis­tance away.

Su­chit said when she tried call­ing Priya’s phone for the teen to come home for the night, she got a trou­bling re­sponse.

“She an­swered the phone and she was be­ing very qui­et, she said “Yes mom­my,” and when I asked where she was, it sound­ed like some­one snatched the phone from her and hang up,” Su­chit said.

Priya is her youngest child and Su­chit said she, her hus­band De­o­raj and their el­dest daugh­ter, Hema be­gan fran­ti­cal­ly search­ing the streets around their home, ask­ing neigh­bours if they had seen her.

“She is a very lov­ing child and she makes friends with any­body she is around, peo­ple around here know her and care for her, so when we start­ed look­ing, there was one guy who said he saw her close to Five Rivers Junc­tion.”

Su­chit said she was al­so told Priya was seen in a bur­gundy Nis­san Almera in the com­pa­ny of an­oth­er per­son. 
Un­able to find any fur­ther in­for­ma­tion on their own, the fam­i­ly made their way to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion.

“This was about 12 o’clock in the night and when we went, we told the po­lice some­one had tak­en her.”

Su­chit com­plained that the of­fi­cer they spoke to did not take them se­ri­ous­ly at first.

“He was say­ing he not tak­ing that re­port and when my hus­band asked his name, he start­ed to move dif­fer­ent.”

She said she went to the sta­tion on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions be­fore, when Priya went miss­ing. How­ev­er, she said her daugh­ter has nev­er been gone overnight be­fore.

“This is the first time she gone for the night, I don’t be­lieve she went will­ing­ly be­cause she knew we had to go out to­geth­er to­day. I be­lieve some­one forced her to go, she would not go just like that and stay out, I don’t know if my child eat­ing, sleep­ing, if she get­ting wa­ter to drink,” Su­chit said.

As she broke down cry­ing, Su­chit said po­lice had man­aged to get the li­cense plate of the Almera but that did not help in lo­cat­ing Priya.

“He said he dropped them off some­where, the po­lice went there but she was not there.”

She sent out an ap­peal to who­ev­er has her daugh­ter to send her home.

“She is a child, please let my child come home,” Su­chit said.

Of­fi­cers of the Arou­ca CID are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

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