SHARMILLA Ramsaroop, of Lot 16 North Sophia, Greater Georgetown, got some welcome news after spending Easter Monday in a state of worry and panic over the whereabouts of her two small children.

The woman had visited the Guyana Chronicle on Easter Sunday to make an appeal for help to locate her two-year-old Ann and three-year-old Annie.

Battered Sharmila Ramsaroop

However, upon returning to her own home the following morning, she was beaten again when she scolded the two children.

It was when she went back to her house, from Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where she was taken by Police for treatment of her wounds, that she discovered the children missing, too.

the missing children, Ann and Annie.

The Police said the man was held on Monday and spent the night in the lock-ups but was released yesterday when he left for the city with the children.

Police at Prashad Nagar Outpost, also in Georgetown, said they received no missing children report but one of assault, from Ramsaroop last Sunday.

The 38-year-old mother revealed that she has been in the abusive relationship for five years and her abuser was placed on a two-year bond in February, after a previous assault and the burning of her clothing.