The parents of 22-year-old Shalinie Pereira-Paul, who was reported missing, have received a telephone call from her, although she has refused to provide them with a contact number or her location.
Pereira-Paul had left her parents’ Good Hope, East Coast Demerara home last Thursday with her four-year-old son to return to her husband’s home in Berbice. She never arrived, although an 11-year-old girl had delivered Pereira-Paul’s son to his paternal grandparents, telling them that the child’s mother asked her to take him there.
Desmond Pereira, Pereira-Paul’s father, told Stabroek News yesterday that while he and his wife were at the Albion Police Station on Thursday, their daughter called there and asked to speak to her mother. She had called her mother-in-law and was informed that her parents were at the police station. The man said his wife told him “Shalinie was crying” on the phone, but told her mother that she was safe. When asked where she was, Pereira-Paul refused to say. She also would not give her parents a number to contact her either.
Pereira-Paul’s father had told Stabroek News earlier that his daughter left her home in Fyrish, Berbice since March after having some problems with her husband. She had left their home last Thursday to return there but never did.
When the young woman called at the Albion Police station, her parents along with the police had already searched for her at places where persons said they had seen her. Her father said yesterday that he did not believe she was alright because of the way she spoke to her mother.
