A mother at her wits’ end, is begging her daughter, Ameera Khan, to come home.
“Tell her, ‘She does’t have to come home to me, she can go to the best friend’. I’m thinking she might be scared to come home to face me and her father. She might feel more compelled if she knows she can go to the best friend’s house. I spoke with the best friend’s mother and she said, it’s no problem,” Andrea Daniel told CBC News this morning.
She said she was numb to emotions since her 15-year-old daughter did not meet her at her workplace after school on Monday evening, and neither did she return home on her own.
“I don’t know what to think, how to feel…I’m confused,” she said, speaking from the family home in Savannah Road, Station Hill, Bush Hall, St Michael.
Daniel said Ameera’s father took her to school at Springer Memorial School, Government Hill, St. Michael on Monday around 7:45 a.m., and saw her walk into the school’s compound.
“School finished early that day, she walked down the Hill with a group of friends, she part ways with some at Belmont Road, and she part ways with the rest in the Fairchild Street van stand…Usually she would walk to my workplace in Belleville [in St. Michael], and then she would come home with me,” the distraught mother recounted from conversations with Ameera’s school mates.
Daniel indicated that they are a Muslim family and there were recent tensions over Ameera’s ditching of her hijab once she left home, spending hours on her mobile phone, among other issues, and she wanted to go and stay with her grandfather in another parish, but he did not agree.
“People were calling saying she was seen in town yesterday. When the people give the description of what she had on, it wasn’t her because the stuff they say she had on was here…on social media people say she was in town with a tall, dark guy and that she got kidnaped by this person,” Ameera’s mum related.
She said her daughter no longer had a mobile phone, but she and one of the girl’s friends messaged her on Instagram and saw their messages to her marked “seen” up to Wednesday night.
Anyone with information about Ameera’s whereabouts is asked to call her family on: 232-7257, or police hotline: 429-8787. (SNR)
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