SEVERAL residents of Cummings Lodge Park, Sophia are shocked at the actions of a 40-year-old mom who they claim is using her 14-year-old daughter as bait to extract monies from a bank manager with whom she is sharing an intimate relationship.Yesterday, a close male associate of the family visited this newspaper in the company of two female neighbours and detailed a harrowing story.

According to the informants, they had approached the mother of the teenager on several occasions and admonished her, but were met with rude outbursts and exclamations of, “I don’t care… I have to get money, and I would do whatever I have to do to get it…”
A male informant, who is a close associate of the mother, said that the woman is desperate for cash to take out her minibus which has been in the workshop since last year. Consequently, she is inducing the girl to offer sexual favours to the 59-year-old bank manager, so that she can accumulate the large sum needed to have the bus up and running.
The man said that the teenage girl would often confide in him tearfully, lamenting that she hated the manager since he would often touch her intimately about her body.
He said the mother, who is a confectionary vendor, would often take her young daughter and two younger sons to spend weekends at the manager who resides in Alberttown, Georgetown, and even the young boys have voiced their dislike for the man.
He said on one occasion, he visited the manager’s home in Alberttown, and upon pushing the door open, he saw the young girl standing in a spandex shorts and her brassiere only in front of the manager, who was laying on a red couch with nothing on but his ‘boxers’. He said the man was seemingly ‘plucking something from his teeth’ and ogling the girl. The mother was nowhere to be seen, he noted.
Our informant said that the girl has related that when she complained to her mother about being fondled by the manager, her mother would admonish her, threatening ‘fire and brimstone’ should she tell her father.
Sources have related that the girl’s father is an alcoholic who is more interested with satisfying his liquor cravings than maintaining the family.
The male informant also related that the mother had bluntly told him once that the manager prefers very young girls and that if she had to use her daughter to extract funds from him, she most certainly would.
According to a few neighbours, who wish to remain anonymous, the teenage girl has not attended classes since the new school year commenced.

(By Alex Wayne)