(Trinidad Guardian) A Trinidad and Tobago national living in the United States is offering a reward of close to US$33,000 for information related to the disappearance of 24-year-old Jamaican social media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson.
Sophia Ruffen, 38, the mother of a five-year-old girl, said Donaldson’s case appealed to her intimately since the news broke on July 13, the day she was reported missing by her mother, Sophia Lugg.
She is offering a JA$$5 million (US$32,804) reward to anyone who can locate Donna-Lee or in regard to her disappearance.
“Somebody knows something and when you put up a reward, money talks. Somebody is going to come forward and say something,” Ruffen declared.
Ruffen told the Jamaican Star that Donaldson’s case hit close to home, as she grew up in a country where incidents of kidnappings and women and children going missing, are rife.
“In Trinidad, it is the same thing. Women go missing by the numbers, children go missing by the numbers. It is the same, this is something that hits near for me,” she added.
She said she felt compelled to offer a reward after falling in love with Donaldson’s aura when she was a former host of reality TV show 876 Roommates.
Ruffen stressed that the reward would only be paid to anyone whose information leads to an arrest and that the funds are made available through her own finances and an overseas charity, Helping Hands.
Meanwhile, the police have assured all concerned parties that the investigation is being conducted according to the highest standards. In a release, the police say the investigative team will this week hold a case review conference with the director of public prosecutions and senior members of her staff.
