The Vigilance woman who failed to return home last Sunday after a creek excursion contacted her mother on Saturday indicating that she is okay but has not stated why she stayed away from home for so many days without informing her relatives.

Alexis Porter left home with a male friend from the area and never returned. Her mother, Yvette Porter had feared that something might have happened to the young woman and had reported the matter to the police which resulted in a man being arrested. He remains in custody.

Yvette Porter yesterday told Stabroek News that she received a call from her daughter on Saturday evening and she told her that she was sorry for staying away from home but did not say where she was.

Porter said before she could have asked the fifth of her thirteen children where she was another woman came on the phone and told her that they saw the report in the newspaper and on the news and they just wanted to say that the young woman is safe. She said the girl was at Timehri.

Porter said she has since redialled the number and after several tries the young woman called again and told her not to worry and that she would come home today. Her mother told her that she has to present herself so that the man in custody would be released and at that point she disconnected the call. Porter said she is hoping that she would see her daughter safe and sound today. She said that the two had no misunderstanding so she cannot understand why the young woman stayed away from home without informing her.

The man, who is in police custody, has been a regular visitor to the home and on Sunday last he invited Alexis to a creek along the Soesdyke highway.

When questioned by Porter on Tuesday, the man known as ‘Shallow’ told her that Alexis had left his group of friends stating she was going to travel with another friend of hers. He said that he had not seen her since.