http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,186649.htmlWhere is Selina?
By SEAN DOUGLAS Monday, November 18 2013
Missing Selina Ghany...
SELINA Ghany, 13, disappeared from her Maraval neighbourhood last Saturday after leaving home to go to confirmation classes at the Church of the Assumption, Maraval, leaving her worried family to appeal to members of the public to help find her.
Family members have posted her photo on the social networking site, Facebook, and are also appealing for help through the mainstream media.
Selina, a Bishops Centenary College pupil, lives at the family home at Dacca Road, Boissiere Village, Maraval, with parents Ramesh and Indra, and sisters Crystal and Sabrina, with an older sister, Cindy Smith, living at Barataria.
Newsday yesterday spoke with her mother, Indra Ghany.
She said Selina had left home for confirmation classes at 9 am, the family not realising that classes had been cancelled for that day. By 12.15 pm, Indra was surprised to not see Selina return, and she sent her son to the church to look for Selina. “She is not one to stray,” said Indra. At 4 pm, the family reported to the police that Selina was missing. Newsday also spoke with Selina’s sister, Crystal, 25. She said when the family checked, no one at the church had seen Selina.
The family is deeply distressed by Selina’s disappearance, said Crystal, saying,
“My father (Ramesh Ghany) can’t even talk”. She said the family has been hearing all sorts of rumours, such as claims that Selina had been spotted in Maraval and even in Tobago. “People are saying it is kidnapping or human-trafficking. My parents are grieving for her, and can’t eat and can’t sleep.”
Crystal said Selina has no boyfriend and nothing like this has ever happened before.
Newsday asked if she might have wanted space. “No. She’s scared to travel, to go in a taxi,”Crystal replied. “She didn’t feel comfortable travelling by herself.”
Crystal said the whole of Boissiere Village is in shock. “It is shocking news. I don’t know what to do.”
Crystal said Selina lives a life that entails going from school to home or from church to home. She is dropped to school on mornings by a brother-in-law, and walks home on evenings with schoolmates. “She is not a girl to stray. From school or from church, she’d come straight home.”
Crystal said since Selina’s disappearance, no one in the family can function.
“There are all kind of rumours, that she’s been seen in Tobago or Maraval, which I chose not to believe,” said Crystal.
“I want to stay positive and think for the best, although my parents think otherwise.” If anyone has info on Selina, please call the family at 622-2850 or 628-0510, or the police.
