Forty-one days af­ter 14-month-old Na­tal­ie Seenath went miss­ing, the child was re­unit­ed with her fa­ther, Dave Richie Seenath, at their fam­i­ly home in Cara­pichaima yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The re­union came fol­low­ing the in­ter­ven­tion of a Guardian Me­dia crew who man­aged to un­earth some in­for­ma­tion on the pos­si­ble where­abouts of the child.

Lit­tle Na­tal­ie went miss­ing on Ju­ly 18. She was last seen by close rel­a­tives. From that day, how­ev­er, rel­a­tives from the fa­ther’s side of the fam­i­ly were un­aware of the child’s where­abouts.

“Every night I cried for my daugh­ter be­cause she’s my princess, she’s my an­gel,” the child’s fa­ther said yes­ter­day.

Seenath claimed he made sev­er­al at­tempts to re­port his daugh­ter miss­ing but said of­fi­cers nev­er took an of­fi­cial re­port. In­stead, ac­cord­ing to Seenath, they made calls re­gard­ing her where­abouts.

A po­lice of­fi­cial at the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia that they were in­ves­ti­gat­ing the child’s dis­ap­pear­ance.

But yes­ter­day, Guardian Me­dia was able to get in­for­ma­tion and con­tact­ed a woman from south Trinidad, who ad­mit­ted the child was at her home along with a 19-year-old rel­a­tive.

The woman promised to en­sure the child was re­unit­ed with her fa­ther.

Around 3 pm, lit­tle Na­talia, along with a fe­male rel­a­tive, showed up close to the fa­ther’s house, where a re­union be­tween fa­ther and daugh­ter took place.

Af­ter a few min­utes, Seenath, his sis­ter Valary and oth­er rel­a­tives were able to take the 14-month-old ba­by home.

“We are so hap­py to have her back with us. As soon as we brought her home I gave her a bath be­cause she was a lit­tle dirty and put on clean clothes for her and gave her a bot­tle of tea. Af­ter she had her tea, she played with her favourite toy and her dad and all of us home here. We are thank­ful to the Guardian Me­dia team for com­ing here to­day and bring­ing us joy be­cause we tried all how to lo­cate her,” Valary said.

Seenath said while his daugh­ter was miss­ing, he heard ru­mours she was sold for $30,000.

Late yes­ter­day, Seenath, his daugh­ter and oth­er rel­a­tives vis­it­ed the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion to re­port that the in­fant had re­turned home.