I WANT BACK MY HUSBAND

“WHERE is daddy? I want daddy now,” two-year-old Tristan Deosaran cried yesterday. Tristan is the only child of the country’s latest kidnap victim, Rodney Deosaran, who was snatched from his wife’s parents’ home in Carapichaima. The kidnappers are demanding $10 million for his safe release. “Bring my husband home please. Bring him back to me. I know in my heart he is missing us and wants to come back home,” Jamie Deosaran wailed as she contemplated the fate of her kidnapped husband.

In an interview with Newsday yesterday, worried relatives said baby Tristan had been constantly asking for his father. The toddler may be too young to understand the circumstances of his father’s fate, but the child does appear to be missing his father. Distraught relatives stated that since the kidnapping on Sunday, baby Tristan was constantly crying for his 28-year-old father. “Every time Tristan asks for his daddy, we have no choice but to lie to him and tell him his father is at work and will come home soon. Do you think this is right?” Deosaran’s emotional sister-in-law Janelle asked, as she sat on a chair surrounded by other relatives, including her mother Carol, grandmother Rajkumarie Manickchand and sisters Jennifer and Jamie. The latter is Deosaran’s wife.

As the tears flowed, Jamie pleaded for her husband’s safe release. She said since her husband was kidnapped on Sunday, she had been having sleepless nights and also added that she would go on a hunger strike until her husband was freed. “I don’t know if they are feeding him, so why should I eat?” the distraught woman asked. “I just want him to know that I love him so much and I am praying for his safe return,” she cried as emotion got the better of her. Jamie’s mother said her son-in-law’s kidnappers had not contacted them and she hoped whoever was keeping Deosaran would “do the right thing” and release him soon. The worried woman described Deosaran as the perfect son-in-law and that he and her daughter were married only a year ago, after a 12-year relationship.

According to police sources, the search for Deosaran had intensified, but no breakthrough was forthcoming. The source said the initial ransom demand still stood and there had been no further contact by the kidnappers with Deosaran’s father, Jawaharlal Deosaran, who owns Amalgamated Sanitation Company Ltd. Deosaran was abducted by three men armed with guns and cutlasses who stormed his in-laws’ Orange Field Road home in Carapichaima at around 9.45 pm on Sunday. The occupants were tied and gagged, and Deosaran was pushed into the kidnappers’ vehicle, which sped off.