THE days continue to drag on without word of the now 14-day-old baby, Avinash, who was kidnapped last Saturday in broad daylight.And his mother, Sandra McLean, called ‘Pinky,’ of Number 60 Village, Corentyne continues to make appeals for the child’s safe return.

According to the infant’s mother, she would even decline to press charges against the kidnapper, who identified herself as Bibi Khan, an assumed alias, if the woman would only return the child.
“I don’t want anything, no police action or nothing, just that she put the baby some place and I will come for him. I want back meh baby,” the mother appealed.
According to McLean, the alleged kidnapper had met her at the hospital where she was admitted for delivery and befriended her, expressing an interest in the newborn, even giving her $5,000 on two separate occasions for the child. Last Saturday, nine days after the child’s birth, the family was hosting a celebration and the alleged kidnapper tuned up and offered to sponsor part of the festivities. The mother, along with the baby and the woman, made their way to the Rose Hall Market, where the alleged kidnapper sent the mother to purchase fish and disappeared with the baby.

“I don’t want anything, no police action or nothing…I just want she (the kidnapper) to put the baby some place and I will come for him. I want back meh baby.” – Sandra McLean, mother of the kidnapped baby.

“I am okay, but meh can’t even able fuh eat without meh baby,” the distraught mother said.
McLean described Khan as an Indian woman in her forties, with a gold tooth and a nose-ring, who is of medium built.
The tearful mother said she is hopeful that results would be forthcoming after Monday’s release of an image of the alleged kidnapper, who told the family that she was from the Surinamese border town of Nickerie. The image was taken off a surveillance tape from a business place Khan and the child’s mother, Sandra McLean, called Pinky, visited on the day of the kidnapping.
Assistant Commissioner, Brian Joseph, who heads the ‘B’ Division, told this newspaper yesterday, that there still have been no new leads into the police’s investigations.
The authorities, however, are continuing their search for the missing child, and anyone with information in relation to this case is being asked to contact the nearest police station, or the couple on telephone numbers 338-1297, 660-2651 or 693-9484.

(By Vanessa Narine)