A 12-year-old girl has been missing for two weeks and relatives are uncertain of her whereabouts but believe that she is on the West Bank of Demerara (WBD).
Shemika Persaud left her Lot 140 Fourth Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara home on April 27 in the company of two friends with the intention of travelling to Georgetown and return within two hours. “She left around 11 o’clock the morning to come to town to buy some food with her friends and I though she woulda reach back around 12 or so but she never come back home,” the child’s mother, Ena Persaud, told Stabroek News yesterday.
The woman said she has heard many versions from her daughter’s friends of what happened on the day of Shemika’s disappearance and thus far has received information that leads her to believe that the girl is in the WBD. “One of the girls say they put her in a car to go home; then another time she saying she go with her in the car and drop her out at the road and put her in a bus; then another time the same girl saying that my daughter went to 11th Street, Diamond but she ain’t go with her,” Persaud said.
Meanwhile, the second friend, she said, has since told her that Shemika is “hiding out over the river.” The frustrated mother said she is inclined to believe this account, especially after she was told that her daughter was seen catching a bus in that area.
Persaud said that she reported the matter to the police since last month but to date, they have been unable to come up with any leads as to where the preteen may be.
Anybody with information on the whereabouts of Shemika is asked to contact relatives on telephone numbers 674-2833 or 679-4700.
