BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, January 18, 2015
"MOMMY, kiss my little brother for me, and in case of anything, be brave."
Those were the last words that Erica Holness heard from her then 24-year-old daughter, Simone Neil, while she lived at New Forest, St Elizabeth, 10 years ago.
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| Simone Neil, missing |
On June 18, 2005, Neil disappeared without a trace, leaving behind her passport, birth certificate, clothes, and her cellular phone with every contact number deleted.
Holness said that after the phone call she became very concerned, as she knew that her daughter was going through a deep state of depression. Shortly afterwards, she got a call informing her that her eldest of three children was missing.
Today, family and community members are torn between two opinions. Did the beautiful light-skinned girl who was accustomed to a flashy lifestyle leave on her own free will and is still alive? Or is she dead?
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| Family members of Simone Neil (left to right) Dave Holness, Juliet Holness, Nicolea Morgan and the missing woman’s son David Golding. (PHOTOS: GREGORY BENNETT |
"She is my first daughter and sometimes I have sleepless nights - even last night," the mother of three who resides in the United States told the Jamaica Observer in a telephone conversation last Thursday. "It's been hard for me. But to be honest she was very depressed."
At the time that Neil went missing, family members said she left in the wee hours of the morning, without taking her then three-year-old son.
Holness explained that her daughter suffered from depression after she gave birth in June 2002 to David Golding (DJ). The child was born with Down's Syndrome, and also had a hole in his heart. She said that the child's father could not accept this fact, or come to grips with a special needs child, and began to accuse Neil of infidelity, while also declaring that the child did not look like him, thus segregating himself from both mother and child. more
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