SIX days after 16-year-old Kareshma Rampersaud was abducted from her home in Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, relatives believe her fate is bleak as her alleged abductor has sent a fearful message to her parents.
The girl’s father, Vijay Rampersaud, believes that it was a close ‘family friend’ who kidnapped the teen.

Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, the troubled father related that the ‘family friend’ had stolen items from their home and was arrested. However, she allegedly escaped police custody. He recalled that the night before Kareshma’s disappearance, the woman had called his home and threatened him. “She said ‘because you make me had to pay money to come out of the station I will make you hold your head and bawl’,” Rampersaud said.
The teen was last seen alive on Thursday around 06:00 hrs. Rampersaud said the teen would usually wake early in the morning and pray at their home-made altar. The morning of her abduction was no different. She had gotten up early and had taken a bath. “My wife said that she told her she was going to pick flowers to place on the altar,” Rampersaud said, adding that the flower tree was outside of the yard, just over the fence.
“Her mother was inside the house when she heard a car door close so she went and peep to see if someone come and she saw a dark colour car pull off,” he recalled. His wife had begun to call for the teen, Rampersaud said, but received no response. “She ran outside and start to call fuh she but she didn’t answer.”
When Kareshma’s mother ran outside she saw that the plate the teen would use to put the flowers on was lying on the road and the flowers were scattered about it. “So she start to scream and call for me.
She said ‘Sapna not there,’ and I hurry and search for her but I didn’t find her.”
The 16-year-old was last seen wearing a plain white dress. The alleged abductor had contacted the family through her sister and the girl’s boyfriend. The sister had related to the family that the woman had asked for the police report to be withdrawn and then she would release the girl.
But things became gloomy as the days passed. The next time the alleged abductor contacted the family, through her sister, the message was to prepare a coffin for the teen because the police were searching for her.
“She said I will get the girl but I will get her when she dead,” the teen’s father cried.
The alleged kidnapper had also contacted the teen’s boyfriend and threatened to kill the girl, the father said. He said that the woman had contacted the boy through text messaging and said that she would return the girl in her own time. The father stated that the woman then ordered the boy not to call her but only to text. “She tell him that she would let Sapna go but then she changed her mind and said she can’t trust him and that she will kill her.”
“We are trying…trying our best to be strong. This has never happen… my children never stay a night away from me. It’s really hard on us but I can’t afford to break down at this time. So all I can do is pray.”
He said that the alleged abductor had moved out of her home in the country and approached his family for lodging. But shortly afterwards they noticed that certain items in their home were missing and after a report to the police  the woman was  detained.
“The police ain’t doing nothing. All they doing is listening to the story,” he said, noting that when he had filed a report at the Brickdam Police Station in Georgetown, the police rank taking the details had refused to take his contact information. “I asked he if he will take my number and he said ‘man you get my number you call me.’”
“I can’t express how I feel right now. I’m fearful for my daughter. I’m scared for my baby. I don’t know what they could do her or what they doing her. It is so long. It’s six days,” the distressed father said.
“It has many cases where people get kidnap and they never return. I don’t know if she is alive or dead. Sometimes they would find a decaying body. I pray that that wouldn’t be my daughter.”
Rampersaud said that all he asks of her abductor is for her safe release. “I would do anything just please let my daughter go. Just send back my daughter please and whatever you want I will give you. Just send her back.”
He said that he was fighting the urge not to think negatively. He said that he was scared that he hasn’t heard his daughter’s voice in six days. “I need to hear from her. I need to know that she is alive. Let her call me… let her text me… please I need to hear from my daughter….every day I’m checking all them bus park and car parks… all them hotels. Sometimes I don’t sleep… I don’t wanna go home, I just wanna find my daughter.”
Anyone with any information about the abducted teen is asked to contact Vijay Rampersaud on telephone numbers: 660-5865; 685-0609 or the nearest police station.