Another teen reported missing

“I walked out the road with her and waited till she got a PTSC bus. When she reached into San Fernando she called to inform me,” Cristal said.

She said her daughter would then take another bus to travel to the Mt Hope area.

“From Mt Hope she has to take another transport to reach to the El Dorado Secondary School. She called me again when she reached Mt Hope and said ‘Mummy I am in Mt Hope and going to get a car to go to school now,” the mother of five said. Baptiste said she waited for another telephone call that her daughter had arrived in front the school, but there were no further calls. “I assumed she forgot to call me until she did not come home from school that day.

When her father (Roy Lezama) and I contacted the school, we learnt that Mariah did not show up to school that day.” Cristal said calls to Mariah’s cell phone went unanswered. “The cell phone is switched off. I don’t know where she is or if someone has her. I just don’t know what to think, but I am so sacred. How would you feel as a mother to know that your daughter left home in her school uniform and you put her in a bus to make sure she was safe and then you get the news from her teachers she never made it to school?” She described Mariah as a very intelligent girl who performs well academically.

“I believe that someone has her against her will. Please send my daughter home.” A report has since been made at the Fyzabad Police Station. Up to late yesterday officers of the Anti Kidnapping Squad were expected to visit the family. Mariah’s disappearance comes weeks after the body of 16 year-old schoolgirl Rachael Ramkissoon was discovered in a track along Balata Trace, San Raphael. She was still dressed in her North Eastern College school uniform. An autopsy revealed that she was strangled