Pregnant runaway teen reportedly gives Police the slip and disappears from Sir Lester Bird Medical Centre

The 14-year-old runaway who had been held in custody at the St. John’s Police Station cells
reportedly has gone missing again.

Earlier this month, it was reported that the teen had run away from home since February
and eventually had been found in the company of an adult male.

Sources tell REAL News that the girl had been located as a result of a tip-off; and not
because the Police had actually been searching for her. However, she was subsequently
held at the station – reportedly in a poor physical environment – for about a month,
although in the second trimester of pregnancy.

The sources tell our newsroom that, the very morning the story broke, the minor was taken
to the hospital as she was undergoing problems with the pregnancy.
However, the sources allege, just days after she was admitted to the Sir Lester Bird Medical
Centre, the girl ran away from the health facility and is yet to be found.

It is further alleged that the Police have remained tight lipped on the minor’s abscondment,
but are blaming the hospital. Meanwhile, the hospital is said to be blaming the Police for
not having provided adequate security for the teenager.

The whereabouts of the minor remain unknown up to this time, the sources say, and they
claim that there is no active search for her, either.

In June, the Nation was horrified to learn that Kemba Marshall, a 12-year-old student of the
Five Islands Primary School, had gone missing since February, with a report allegedly
having been filed with the Police by one of his parents in March.

No public appeal was made by the Police and no Missing Person Bulletin was published,
either – prompting Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle to write to Commissioner Atlee
Rodney, in July, to ask how this could have happened.

Pringle confirms that there has been no response to his letter, which also requested a
meeting between the Commissioner and the Opposition parliamentarians to discuss the
state of crime.

And despite a search mounted by the Concerned Citizens group in the Five Islands area,
where the child’s mother lives, there has been no trace of the missing boy, to date.
It is not known whether the Police are actively investigating that case.