The five teenage girls from the St Jude’s School for girls who were re­port­ed miss­ing on Fri­day were back at the home on the very same day.

Of­fi­cials said the girls were not miss­ing but in­stead opt­ed to trav­el back to the fa­cil­i­ty on their own, trig­ger­ing an im­me­di­ate re­sponse from the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion where they had been at­tend­ing class­es.

Guardian Me­dia was told that the 17-year-old iden­ti­fied as Tasha Sansan, Priya Jaglal, Leann Mod­este, La­Toya Charles, and Letisha Cor­reia ar­rived at the Bel­mont fa­cil­i­ty around 7 pm on Fri­day af­ter trav­el­ling on their own.

Of­fi­cials said the girls were last seen at the Barataria Recre­ation Grounds at 11:15 am on Fri­day. A re­port re­gard­ing their dis­ap­pear­ance was made to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion just af­ter mid­day on the same day.

So why make a re­port so quick­ly?

Well, ac­cord­ing to As­sis­tant Man­ag­er of St Judes School for girls, De­o­raj Sookdeo, the girls were sup­posed to wait for trans­porta­tion pro­vid­ed by the school, but in­stead, they trav­elled which led to them ar­riv­ing late at the home. He ex­plained that a count was be­ing done by so­cial work­ers and the girls could not be ac­count­ed for at the recre­ation ground.

Sookdeo added, it is the pol­i­cy of the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps to re­port im­me­di­ate­ly when young­sters in their care are un­ac­count­ed.

While the five teenaged girls are safe, an­oth­er teenag­er re­mains miss­ing.

Leti­tisha St Paul, who left with two oth­er girls on Ju­ly 27th has not been seen or heard from since.

The oth­er girls are back at the fa­cil­i­ty.

In re­cent times, the home has been in the spot­light.

In late Ju­ly, three teens from the same home were tak­en to hos­pi­tal for treat­ment af­ter they in­gest­ed stolen med­ica­tion.