Woman tells cops: I am not missing

Jazmin Mohammed told police she was the victim of physical abuse and as such left her home.

The Chaguanas woman contacted an uncle, Azard Mohammed, and told him she was with a friend in Carenage and did not wish to return home.

Azard, who spoke with Newsday yesterday, said he will be taking his niece to the police so an investigation could be carried out into her allegations of abuse.

Azard said his niece also sent him photos of her hand and other parts of her body in which she received welts from a beating with a piece of cable prior to her leaving home. Yesterday, Newsday contacted Jazmin’s mother Yasmin, who confirmed that her daughter received two lashes for her deviant behaviour but denied that her daughter was the victim of abuse.

She said, “All I want to know is that Jazmin is well and eating and is comfortable where she is, and then I would be able to rest comfortably.”