Parbattie Joseph and her son Gavindra Joseph have been missing for a week as of today and her husband and mother are baffled as to what could have happened to the pair who were heading home on the day that they disappeared.
According to Preamindra Sattie, the husband of Joseph and father of their two-year-old son, the 23-year-old had left their Hibernia Village home on the Essequibo Coast on August 15 to travel to Georgetown for treatment of a heart condition. Sattie explained that his wife’s condition required her to visit the doctor every two months.
Joseph would usually spend time at her mother’s when she made the trips, Sattie said. While at her mother’s after her last trip, Sattie recalled that Joseph called him and said that “she had dengue” and would be staying at her mother’s home for a while. However, since August 27, when Joseph and her son left her mother’s La Grange, West Bank Demerara home, she has not been seen. According to Sattie, Joseph’s mother had called him to see if she had made it home. When he tried calling Joseph’s cell phone, he said it went straight to voicemail.
Sattie said that he and his wife had no issues at home and he pleaded for her safe return. He added that if not her, then at least the child should be sent home. “If anybody got she let they state what they want,” he said.
Meanwhile, Joseph’s mother, Seeta Seegobin, said that she does not know what to think about her daughter’s disappearance. “Me ain’t know what to think. All kinda thing going through my head.”
Seegobin said her daughter had a “large heart” condition and visited the city for regular treatment and check-ups at the Georgetown Public Hospital. While at her home, Seegobin said, Joseph behaved normal. She added that her daughter never told her about contracting dengue fever. “The time she come she nah do much talking, she seemed worried,” Seegobin shared.
According to Seegobin, three months ago her daughter had complained to her that “the mother-in-law give she hard time and he (Sattie) does listen to the mother.” She said that was the only time her daughter ever said anything of that nature. Joseph has lived with her mother-in-law and husband on the Essequibo Coast for the past six years.
On the day that Joseph was last seen, she was wearing a green top and black jeans while her son was wearing a white armless t-shirt with black pants. Seegobin said that the woman left her home to go to Vreed-en-Hoop to take a bus to Parika, where she would take a boat home.
The matter has since been reported to the La Grange Police Station and the Probation and Welfare Office at Anna Regina has also shown an interest in the case. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Joseph and her son are asked to contact the police station or Sattie on 617-9010 or Seegobin on 626-2226.