Mother, three children return home
Published:Wednesday | August 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Anastasia Cunningham, Senior Gleaner Writer
The mother and three children, who were reported missing last week from Mud Lane in Rock Hall, St Andrew, are back home.
On Saturday evening, 27-year-old Dahlia Wright and her three children - four-year-old Kiara, three-year-old Kiona, and 11-month-old Gabouria Davis - returned home after family and friends had not heard from them since they left on the afternoon of Sunday, August 7.
They were reported missing by common-law husband and father Marlon Davis last Thursday, after he had exhausted all means of finding them. The police then issued a high alert.
According to head of the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), Inspector Steve Brown, when the alert went out, several calls came in as to their whereabouts, which the police looked into. He said it was not until Saturday evening that they were located at the place where they had taken refuge.
Constable Renee Barham, of CCN, told The Gleaner: "The mother left the home because of some domestic issue. After the alert went out, the place she took refuge made contact with the police. We made checks with the location to make sure she was there and safe and sound."
Yesterday, the CCN issued a brief statement: "Dahlia Wright and her three children who were reported missing on Sunday, August 7 have returned home and are all in good health."
Brown said it was now up to the place of safety where they took refuge and other groups to follow up on counselling and whatever social intervention that is needed, which led to the mother leaving the home with her children to seek refuge elsewhere.
Not first time
Last Friday, Davis had told The Gleaner: "She go wey with them already, but I always know where to find her. Sometimes when we have a argument, she say she want go stay with her family or a friend. To how me see it right now, I feel like she a try spite me."
Yesterday he said: "Everything is okay now. She said she went to somewhere in Golden Spring at a Food For the Poor place, because she wanted to take a little break. We are now trying to work things out as a family."
On the day they went missing, he and Dahlia reportedly had a dispute. He told her to take the children and go spend the day by his sister. He gave her $1,200 and called their regular taxi. She left with the children just after noon with only her handbag, but she neither took the taxi nor went to the sister's home.