Help us find Jade - help bring her home By Stacy Moore and Vashtee Achibar Thursday, January 1 2015 THE greatest wish of a California mother for the New Year is for her missing 12-year-old daughter to walk through the door of their home. Jade Peters, a Form Two student of Union Claxton Bay Secondary School disappeared on the night of December 26 (Boxing Day) after leaving home to go to a nearby parlour to buy a phone card. She has not been seen since and her worried mother Pearl Narine fears that her daughter was kidnapped and is in grave danger. Speaking to Newsday from her Dow Village, California home, Pearl said she knows that her daughter did not run away but was kidnapped as she walked along Railway Road in California to go to the shop. Jade will celebrate her 13th birthday next March 15. Reports are at about 10 pm last Friday, Jade told her eldest sister Janelle that she wanted to go to a nearby shop to buy a phone card but was told it was too late and that she should not go. Despite the warning the girl left the house to go to the shop located about a hundred feet from her home and has not been seen since. The owner of the shop told Jade’s parents that she never came to the shop on Boxing Night. Her worried parents are linking her disappearance to a 32-year-old man who Jade was seen talking to some time ago. Jade’s father Wayne Peters, 53, a truck driver with Parc Disposals in San Fernando recalled that on Boxing Day he came home at 10 pm last Friday and called on Jade to bring an umbrella for him to shelter his grand-daughter who was asleep in his car. He said after Jade brought it and secured the child in her bed, he went upstairs and left her with her eldest sister Janelle, 21. Jade is the last of his six children. Peters said he only became aware that his daughter was missing on Saturday after a friend told him. He said that on Saturday morning he left home at 5 am to go to work and it was only after a friend came to pick him up that he was told his daughter had not come home. Peters said he called his wife and began to question her and his eldest daughter as to why he was not told that she had failed to return home. He said it was then Janelle related to him what had happened. She also told him when she went to bed in the downstairs section of the house she thought that jade was upstairs. Peters said his rule is that his children are not to walk on the road after a certain time . “I always told them to keep off the road,” he said sadly. After searching everywhere for the girl including the Port-of-Spain, San Fernando and Couva hospitals without success, Peters reported the matter to the Couva Police Station on Sunday. Peters said that in August he had cause to warn his daughter about talking to a man who was standing at the front gate to the Peters home. Peters said he told the man known as ‘Aaron’ that his daughter is a minor and he should leave her alone. He said the man in turn responded: “Bossman I just check for she.” Peters related that his daughter told him afterwards that the man told her he would shoot her father if he (Peters) ever quarrelled with her about him (the 32-year-old man). Peters said he became so concerned about the threat that he made a report to the police but they were unable to act as he did not know the man’s full name or address. The worried father said he is very concerned about his daughter’s safety. He said though she might appear to be older than her age she is just a child and that she is sickly. He said she needs someone to take care of her. In a diary which she kept, Jade wrote that she wanted to be a singer when she grows up and that in the New Year she would improve on her studies. She also wrote that she would take care of her parents when they got older. Jade parents are appealing to anyone with information to call the Couva Police station at 636-2333. newsday.co.tt/crime_and_court/0,204970.html
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:34:55 +0000
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