Old Harbour mother experiencing "running belly" as children go missing

Both children have been reported missing since Monday of this week after they went together into the nearby Old Harbour town centre, but yet to return home.

The Panton Lane family said on Sunday Rohana, who attends Old Harbour High, celebrated her birthday minus the customary niceties, but her mother promised that her wish for cake and patty will be granted the next day.

Monday could not come too soon for the budding teen who lives with her mother, five siblings and stepfather.

However, what transpired after no one really knows.

At the time they left home Johnson said her third daughter was sporting a full lime green outfit with matching sneakers.

Providing further details describing her daughter, she added: "Rohana has some scars also on her neck and on her hand. She lost three fingers: two from one hand and one from the other hand.

"Rohan hair top cane row. Rohan was wearing a green and blue plaid shirt, short sleeve; a grey shorts with red stripes at the side and a full red uppers sneakers."

The family said based on information gathered so far, the brother and sister were spotted boarding a taxi that plies the Old Harbour to May Pen route.

The police have been notified with investigators now trying to track them down based on certain crucial pieces of intelligence gathered so far.

A frustrated Johnson is, however, expressing disappointment in the police telling Old Harbour News she doesn't feel assured that they are doing enough. Since she filed the first missing report, she said she has to keep repeating herself in separate reports whenever the police change shift.

"To my knowledge and understanding they don't inform them one another when things happen. When things like this happen you have to keep following up with them every day. So mi just walk out of the station this morning when mi go out there.

"Mi affi a give statement all over again and a so mi break down, because mi no understand them at all."

Head of the Old Harbour Police DSP Mark Harris has reserved from disclosing any specifics on the matter, but said the police are doing their best to locate and reunite the children with their family.

“The matter is a priority for the police and we are trying our best to find these children to take them back safely to their homes,” he said.

It has been a difficult period for the family, Johnson said.

"Mi can't sleep! Right now mi have running a belly. Mi heart, mi body, mi soul, everything in a pain," lamented the distraught mother, while noting such extreme distress disrupts her menstrual cycle that drains her physically and emotionally.

The children's biological father who is from and still lives in Trelawny has been notified, the mother said.

The entire family is eager to be reunited with the children, who also goes by the aliases ‘Prince’ and ‘Princess’.

The 38-year-old mother recounted to Old Harbour News that she was the one who accompanied them to the "top of the lane" about 11:30 am Monday.

It's a normal practice sending the children by themselves into town, which is roughly a five-minute walk from where they reside.

She said after seeing them off with the expectation that they would return in short order with the pastries to share with the other siblings, she never thought of them going missing.

"Mi fall asleep and wake up about 2:30, three o'clock, so mi turn to Empress who is one of their bigger sisters and said to her 'Princess and Prince don't come back as yet?' She said 'no them don't come back yet'.

"So mi come back out on the road looking out for them. So mi buy flour and some stuff and se mi ago gwaan cook the food till dem come."

While preparing dinner Johnson said she instructed the older siblings to go in search of them. But the two were nowhere to be found after searching everywhere they believe they could be or may have visited in the town centre.

"About 4:30, minutes to five" Johnson said a formal report was logged at the Old Harbour Police Station.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of these children should immediately contact 876 218 2147; 876 819 0473; Old Harbour Police at 876 983 2255; police emergency 119 or the nearest police station.