Abduction nightmare

A mother is relieved to have her teen daughter return home alive after her bid to land a job at a Portmore call centre morphed into a nightmare after she was allegedly abducted after the interview.

The 19-year-old was reportedly abducted for two days after boarding a taxi during a rainy Monday afternoon in downtown Kingston. She is said to be weak because she had not eaten during the period.

She was reportedly found Wednesday and was hospitalised, up to press time, for injuries and trauma sustained during the 48-hour ordeal.

According to her mother, a rogue taxi operator, who engaged the help of a woman and another man, abducted the teen and physically assaulted her.

“Dem just let her off back. Yeah, dem kidnap her and put her in house, abandoned building,” the teen’s mother told The Gleaner shortly after she returned.

The woman, a resident of a west Kingston community, said her daughter did not have physical bruises but has been advised to visit the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse on Thursday.

The woman said her daughter “is not talking much” and did not disclose that she had been raped.

“Somebody found her down West Street. Is there dem mussi drop her. She said she was in a gully and climb up and reach Maxfield Avenue and take a taxi and she traumatised. She said she started crying because they wanted to kill her,” the mother said.

The Gleaner was told that the teenager begged relentlessly for her abductors to spare her life.

“A lady was in the kidnapping and she said she have to cry to the lady and say, ‘Member mi have me daughter, mi have mi daughter. You would like nobody kill you and leave yuh daughter? A so the lady have little lenience,” the mother told The Gleaner, adding that the men had been insistent about killing her daughter.

The ordeal began for the teen when she took an ‘Upper Yard’ taxi and was punched in the face by the male passenger.

“They wind up the mirror and drove away with her. She nuh know weh dem carry her; she only know she inna the building for two days,” the mother said.

She knew that things were amiss when she could not reach her daughter on Monday afternoon and her phone went to voicemail.

The mother said alarm bells went off because her daughter was usually reachable.

A missing person report was filed at the Central Police Station on Monday. The police Corporate Communications Unit confirmed that it received the missing person correspondence on Tuesday.

“The police dem beg me to make something and send it over social media. When mi do it, she is popular on social media, so everybody start send it out.

“God is so good,” the mother said.

andre.williams@gleanerjm.com