After leaving home early Monday morning without the knowledge of her family, 16-year-old Kamanie Mahadeo of Lot 12 No. 19 Village, East Berbice- Corentyne (Region Six) made contact with her mother Samantha Bacchus.
Bacchus told Village Voice Guyana on Friday that the teen contacted her and said she is safe and will return to their home soon.
“Just before y’all come in, she call and say she will come home so I ask her where she deh and she saying somewhere over the river. So I tell her to come home and go to the police station because the police dealing with the matter. But she telling me to call the police and tell them she is okay and she don’t want to go to the station”, Bacchus said.
The 32-year old mother of three said while she does not know her daughter’s whereabouts she suspects that the 16-year-old had left home to be with a male friend whom she [Bacchus] disapproved of.
“If you are seeing this Tina, I want you to know that we love you and if you come home nobody will treat you differently,” Bacchus said in an appeal to her daughter who left home with three bags of clothes and her makeup.
The worried mother recounted that early Monday morning she was awaken to calls by her father for Mahadeo.
“Me and her does sleep together in one room. Morning time she does usually take care of her grandfather. So Monday morning her grandfather calling out for her and nobody ain’t answering so I wake up from the calling and didn’t see her on the bed. I get up and went downstairs and I call for her too but no answer. I call up some neighbor and we search but we nah find she,” the worried mother told Village Voice Guyana.
On Tuesday, Bacchus used Facebook to post a missing person’s report with the hope that someone will see her daughter and alert her. After making the social media post, the mother said she made a report to the Police.
