RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

Twen­ty days af­ter a two-year-old boy and his 18-year-old moth­er were al­leged­ly ab­duct­ed by a close male rel­a­tive, the boy has again been ab­duct­ed by the rel­a­tive.

The child’s moth­er now fears for the child’s safe­ty and blames the po­lice for not charg­ing the rel­a­tive af­ter the first in­ci­dent.

Po­lice said in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the boy’s ab­duc­tion, which oc­curred on Tues­day morn­ing at his San­gre Grande home.

A team of po­lice and Hunters Search and Res­cue Team mem­bers were said to be comb­ing sev­er­al forest­ed ar­eas in San­gre Grande up to late last night.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 2.30 am, Habib Ali, of Quash Trace, San­gre Grande, con­tact­ed the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion and re­port­ed that whilst at home with his sis­ter Ade­ba Ali, 18, and her son Umar, two, he was awak­ened by his sis­ter. Habib told of­fi­cers that Ade­ba told him that the 35-year-old sus­pect had bro­ken in­to the house, took his nephew with­out her con­sent and left in a di­rec­tion un­known to them.

San­gre Grande po­lice of­fi­cers went to the home of the sus­pect at Bark­er Trace, Coalmine, San­gre Grande, and spoke to a rel­a­tive, who in­di­cat­ed that he re­ceived a call from a cell­phone num­ber at about 3 am from the sus­pect stat­ing that “he in trou­ble.”

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, the child’s moth­er, Ade­ba, said she is fear­ful for her son’s life. She claimed that on May 4, she and her son were ab­duct­ed by the sus­pect but with­in hours they were found and res­cued from a house in Man­zanil­la.

“The po­lice had the man in a cell for two days and they let him go with­out any charge. Now he come back and take my son and gone, nowhere to be found so far. I think the po­lice can do more to find my son but at the same time, I can­not tell them what to do,” Ade­ba said.

“I think he was stalk­ing us for a while. I know the man yes. I re­mem­bered see­ing him stand­ing in the door­way with my son and I ask him why he tak­ing my son and where he’s go­ing but I was too afraid to fol­low him to see where he went with my child but I woke up my broth­er and then we con­tact­ed the po­lice. So far, we’ve looked all over for my son but noth­ing yet.”

Of­fi­cers at the San­gre Grande sta­tion said they are con­duct­ing search­es and con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

How­ev­er, of­fi­cers urged any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the where­abouts of the child or sus­pect to con­tact the near­est po­lice sta­tion, 999, 555 or 800 TIPS.