An 18-year-old girl has been missing from her home since August 27 and worried relatives believe she is being held captive in Berbice.
Yohji Peters left her Lot 226 Garnett Street, Newtown home saying she was going to a seamstress to have a dress altered. No one knows where the seamstress lives or if Peters ever made it there.
The teen’s mother Annette Peters said her daughter left home, the day she returned from Suriname. She said her daughter lived with relatives and had never given any indication that she was going to leave home and not return. She has never “slept out”, a distraught Annette said.
The woman said Peters’ boyfriend claims he doesn’t known where she is but has since said things that led her to believe otherwise.
She recalled that after many tries, she spoke with her daughter last Saturday night via her cellular phone. She said that according to the teen she was in Skeldon and had begun to give directions when she ended the conversation saying that she would call back. Attempts, later that night to reach Peters were futile.
Annette said that during the short conversation with her, it appeared that Peters did not know where she was as she was asking someone for directions.
On Sunday night, Annette recalled, a male answered the teen’s cellular phone and at one point asked her “why yuh callin, callin this phone?” when she asked to speak with her daughter.
Annette told Stabroek News that she believes her child is being held against her will. “I would like her to come home wherever she is and if she is being held against her will, please release her,” she pleaded.
A missing persons report was made to the police.
Anyone with information can contact Annette on 609-3419 or 651-0931 or the nearest police station.
