After being missing for four weeks, a girl attending a prominent Corporate Area high school tells a chilling tale of being abducted and forced into prostitution, which could give some insight into where some of 4,394 children that have gone missing between January 2013 and March 2015 might be ending up.
The police, along with the Child Development Agency, have commenced investigations into the matter since it was brought to their attention yesterday by The Gleaner to ascertain the credibility of the young girl's story.
Fourteen-year-old Shanique* went missing on April 8 after attending a counselling session at the Victim Support Unit, sending her mother into panic mode, because, although she had slept out overnight on two previous occasions, she had never been away from home for so long.
Shanique, who hails from one of St Andrew's inner-city communities, in a changing story said she somehow ended up in Clarendon. There is where Shanique's ordeal reportedly started, as she claimed to have boarded a car, with one other girl in it, to make her way back to Kingston. She said it had a 'funny smell', as though there was something coming from the A/C and that made her feel sleepy.
"The driver stopped at this building that looked like a church, but it was built with board. He came out and said to give him a minute and went to the back of the church and came back with three other guys who had weapons (knives), and said that we were supposed to come out," Shanique said.
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| Jermaine Barnaby/Photographer Displaying the burns she said she received. |
When she went into the building, she saw several other girls in various rooms, she said. The room she was placed in had approximately 12 girls, "some 11, 12, 13; the oldest one, I know she was 17".
Shanique added: "There was a big woman there, who is not like us, she is around 18 or 19, and the other girls said she was there from she was young. So they use her to put on the makeup and stuff." more
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