Abducted nine-day-old…Surveillance cameras capture kidnapper
Relatives and concerned residents of Number 60 Village, Corentyne and surrounding communities have intensified efforts to find the infant who was abducted from the Port Mourant Market, last Saturday.
A surveillance shot of the suspect, Bibi khan
The infant’s mother, Sandra Mc Lean, told this newspaper, yesterday that surveillance footage of the woman, who had allegedly kidnapped her baby, has since surfaced.
“We went back to the market and found a store that she went into, and the owners got a video footage of her. Like she didn’t realize that the store had a camera and the owners pull up the footage.
“Everybody we know and tell on de look out. Family friends and even business people helping .We don’t know what to do but keep looking; we searching all de time,” Mc Lean stated yesterday
She explained that local law enforcement officials have also intensified their investigations.
“We report de matter at Whim Police station. Police say that they mek contact with Suriname Police, so that everyone on the lookout but now we hearing different story now because people at Albion say that the woman might not be from Suriname after all,” the young mother added
On Saturday afternoon a woman, whom Mc Lean met at the Skeldon Public Hospital several days before, reportedly disappeared with her infant son. The woman, whom she identified as Bibi Khan was reportedly based in Suriname.
After she had delivered a healthy baby boy, Mc Lean said that she met Khan on May 16, last, at the hospital. “I was experiencing labour pains and this woman come in and say that she looking for someone name Sandra.
I didn’t say anything because my name is also Sandra, plus I was in pain so my relatives talked to her. She was kinda short and medium size and she is Indian and she was wearing a Kemar,” the grieving mother recalled.
Mc Lean said that the woman returned after she had delivered her son.
“She asked to play with the baby; she said that she has to pay him and she put $5000 under his blanket and she lifted him. We were talking and I gave her my address and so. She spent like an hour and then she left.”
The woman subsequently returned. “I didn’t see her back until she come to my house. She come and played with the baby and she gave him another $5000, and she asked if she can buy stuff for him and I said ‘no problem’ because we were having a nine-day celebration for the baby.”
“When we were in Skeldon, she went into a store and then she come out back and say that my baby brings luck to her because she got through with whatever business she had to do. She said that she has to buy something in a Chinese store but “like after she see the cameras she didn’t go. But I didn’t really suspect anything.
The abducted infant
Afterward, we went to the Port Mourant Market and she said that she wanted fish. She tell me that the baby will be safe with her outside, while I go and buy the fish in the market. But when I come out back she was gone.”
A report was made to the local law enforcement officers but the search proved futile.
The child’s mother said that she still in state of shock. She said that her baby was not even registered.
“We de naming him Avinash. He father ain’t even get to see he but I know me child if I see him anywhere. He get a slight mark on he knee like a birthmark, and I could never forget that woman.
“I will always remember her face,” the mother said as she noted that she still has hope of finding her son.
Anyone with information regarding the missing infant is asked to contact the nearest police station or contact relatives on telephone numbers, 338-1297 6602651 or 693 9484.
