I want back my son!

"I want back my son! He never did anyone wrong. He is just a boy and I am going crazy because I don’t know where he is or what is happening to him. I want him back home please," 52-year-old Patricia Saroop pleaded, as she wept and had to be comforted by her daughter Vanessa at their Circular Road, Marabella home.

Anthony — Patricia’s youngest child — is a Form Two student of San Fernando Government Secondary School and was kidnapped shortly after leaving an Internet cafe last Tuesday.

According to reports, Saroop, 15, exited an Internet cafe when two men accosted and forced him into a waiting vehicle. The kidnappers later telephoned the family, demanding an $8 million ransom for his safe release.

Saroop was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue short pants and red slippers. When Newsday visited the family yesterday, his distraught mother who was surrounded by friends and relatives, was overcome with emotion, as she begged for his safe return.

Saroop, who is a cashier at a San Fernando racing pool, said the entire episode has left the family in shock. She insisted that no one in the family had the amount of money which is being demanded.

"I am a single parent and I don’t even have one hundred cents on me much less for the eight million dollars they are asking for my son’s return," Saroop sobbed.

Anthony’s elder brother Marlon Saroop, 25, said the family received four telephone calls from the kidnappers since his brother was snatched.

He said the first two calls were not audible, but the third call, which was made by a heavy male voice said, "We have your son!"

In the final call, the heavy male voice demanded, "Eight million dollars in 24 hours." Marlon added that the caller said something about a bank as well.

"We don’t have any money and the family is puzzled why anyone would do this," he said, adding that he was not aware of anyone making threats against his youngest brother.

Up to late yesterday, officers of both the Marabella Police and the Anti-Kidnapping Squad were unable to shed any light as to Saroop’s whereabouts. No arrests have been made and investigations were continuing.