The woman who escaped from a shop owner who was holding her against her will at Granny Backdam, at Omai, in Region Seven, has been rescued and is now safely at home in Georgetown.
The 28-year-old woman told Stabroek News that the police arrived on Sunday afternoon around 3 pm and they reached Mabura sometime during that night. She said that they spent the night there and travelled to the city yesterday.
The woman told Stabroek News that she indicated to the police that “meh ain’t want no story. All I want is to go home”.
She, however, called for the shop owner’s business to be inspected, saying it is not fit for humans to inhabit.
The shop owner had refused to return her belongings after she escaped to a nearby camp but the woman said shortly before the police arrived, she was told that she could visit and uplift her things.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told Stabroek News yesterday that he was aware of the case and that no arrest had been made. He said the victim has been interviewed by the police and will be interviewed further. “From the preliminary interview, it doesn’t appear that there was any trafficking in person,” he told this newspaper.
The woman had made contact with Head of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes shortly after she escaped on Saturday.
She had subsequently explained to this newspaper that she had agreed to go into the interior location after the woman approached her
