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BOOKS belonging to 11-year-old Anada Dean, who was reported missing Wednesday, were found yesterday.
However, nervous family members and residents of 12 Whitehall Avenue in Kingston, where she resides, are hoping that their worst fears will not be realised. but that Anada will return home.
ANADA. missing since Wednesday
Ananda, a seventh-grade student of the Swallowfield All-Age School, was last seen boarding a bus after school after 4:00 pm Wednesday, according to her father, Richard Dean.
Several of her school books were found yesterday, strewn along a pathway in the community of Pembroke Hall, several kilometres from where she was last seen.
According to Dean, Ananda was last seen by a family friend who gave her some money before she boarded the bus en route to Half-Way-Tree.
"The friend said that he gave her the money and she and some of her friends boarded the bus that he said was going to Half-Way-Tree. It is not like Passion (Ananda's alias) to leave without telling anyone. She would not do that," said Dean.
Dean said that Ananda's books were found early yesterday morning by a woman who called a relative after she saw Ananda's telephone number on one of the books.
The books were later turned over to the police, Dean said.
"I am just asking anyone who knows where she might be to call us so we can find her, please," pleaded Dean, who added that Ananda's mother earlier fainted during the ordeal and had to be taken to hospital.
Meanwhile, a group of people used fallen trees, stones, metal and other debris to block a section of Whitehall Avenue in protest of what they said was police 'tardiness' in handling the matter.
The police do not consider a person missing until after 24 hours have elapsed, after he/she was last seen. However, a spokesman said situations sometimes differ.
"Baby can't missing how long and the police talking about 24 hours before them can say she missing. Imagine an 11-year-old girl on the road for a hour by herself, much less 24 (hours). Is pure foolishness the police going on with," shouted one of several female protesters, who blasted the officers as they removed debris from the roadway.
The demonstration, which led to the early dismissal of classes at Swallowfield All-Age, later ended when police used tear-gas to disperse the crowd.
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However, nervous family members and residents of 12 Whitehall Avenue in Kingston, where she resides, are hoping that their worst fears will not be realised. but that Anada will return home.
ANADA. missing since Wednesday Ananda, a seventh-grade student of the Swallowfield All-Age School, was last seen boarding a bus after school after 4:00 pm Wednesday, according to her father, Richard Dean.
Several of her school books were found yesterday, strewn along a pathway in the community of Pembroke Hall, several kilometres from where she was last seen.
According to Dean, Ananda was last seen by a family friend who gave her some money before she boarded the bus en route to Half-Way-Tree.
"The friend said that he gave her the money and she and some of her friends boarded the bus that he said was going to Half-Way-Tree. It is not like Passion (Ananda's alias) to leave without telling anyone. She would not do that," said Dean.
Dean said that Ananda's books were found early yesterday morning by a woman who called a relative after she saw Ananda's telephone number on one of the books.
The books were later turned over to the police, Dean said.
"I am just asking anyone who knows where she might be to call us so we can find her, please," pleaded Dean, who added that Ananda's mother earlier fainted during the ordeal and had to be taken to hospital.
Meanwhile, a group of people used fallen trees, stones, metal and other debris to block a section of Whitehall Avenue in protest of what they said was police 'tardiness' in handling the matter.
The police do not consider a person missing until after 24 hours have elapsed, after he/she was last seen. However, a spokesman said situations sometimes differ.
"Baby can't missing how long and the police talking about 24 hours before them can say she missing. Imagine an 11-year-old girl on the road for a hour by herself, much less 24 (hours). Is pure foolishness the police going on with," shouted one of several female protesters, who blasted the officers as they removed debris from the roadway.
The demonstration, which led to the early dismissal of classes at Swallowfield All-Age, later ended when police used tear-gas to disperse the crowd.
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