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The family of a 22-year-old woman is contesting reports that the Barbadian duo charged with trafficking several young girls from Guyana to Barbados may be innocent. The family said that their 22-year-old relative was able to escape Keenon Chase and Amelia Joseph unharmed after they intervened and made threats to contact the authorities.Yesterday,Authentic NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Kaieteur News spoke with a woman who lives in Georgetown. She requested anonymity for her family before explaining that earlier this year her granddaughter (name given) was invited to travel to Barbados by a school friend who claimed that there was work available on the island.According to the woman, her granddaughter did inform the family about her intention to travel and her purpose. Her airfare and accommodation were paid and provided by her Barbadian employers, the grandmother said. But after a while her granddaughter complained that what she had left Guyana to do was not what the Barbadian employers wanted them to do.The woman said that her relative informed her that the young girls were engaging in sexual activities and being paid for sexual favours. She said after her granddaughter had complained about wanting to come back to Guyana, she made contact with Joseph.�� personally spoke to the woman (Joseph). I told her I needed my granddaughter home and her grandfather needed her also.��The grandmother also made the woman understand that she had her contact information and she would not hesitate to get the authorities involved.The woman, however, said that her granddaughter remembered Joseph remaining in constant contact via BlackBerry messaging during the trip to Barbados. Showing the messages from Joseph to Kaieteur News, the grandmother said her granddaughter had forwarded them to her.The messages showed Joseph contacting the young woman and telling her where she should go and who she should contact when she arrived in Barbados. One message even showed Joseph sending Chase�� BlackBerry PIN number to the young woman�� cell phone.She said that the family would have known nothing was amiss until the granddaughter started to complain.� The young woman,Jerseys NFL Wholesale China, the publication was told, worked in the bar but policies of the employers made her want to leave as the atmosphere was also unsafe.The grandmother said that on two occasions the granddaughter had sent money back home and that too made everything look legitimate. But what was however strange was the fact that unknown persons were bringing the money to the family. The grandmother said she was later informed by her granddaughter that on arrival to Barbados, all the girls��passports are taken away, they would tell the woman about sending money home and someone in Guyana would deliver the money.The girls were not allowed to walk alone and to leave the premises without permission. When the girls worked,NFL Jerseys Outlet From China, for example, the grandmother said,Authentic NFL Jerseys Wholesale China, ��f a customer paid a girl $100, it would be taken away from her.��he said if the girls however asked to be paid, and the sum they receive is short,cheap jerseys nfl wholesale, there is nothing they can do about it.The grandmother however said that she believes that there is a smuggling ring going on and Guyanese are involved. She said that as her granddaughter divulged more and more information about the matter she believes that Joseph would regularly visit Guyana.Barbadian police late last month netted five Guyanese girls working illegally and almost naked in a Bridgetown bar. The Barbados Nation newspaper had reported that police raided a bar in Nelson Street, a downtown area frequented by Guyanese and other non-nationals,NFL Jerseys Supply, and discovered the 17 to 21-year-old girls clad only in bathing suits.The Barbados Nation online newspaper said that Amelia Joseph, 36, and Keenon Chase, 22, were arrested and charged for trafficking the girls. The five girls are now said to be in protective custody in Barbados.Relatives of one of the females in Guyana had however said that the girls were lying and making up the whole story.But reports out of Barbados alleged that a third person had been arrested in connection with the case. Guyanese sources living in Barbados have told Kaieteur News that the third person arrested in the case, 76-year-old Joan Fernandez, had posed as the grandmother of a number of the girls.They however said that much more fallout is expected since youngsters,NFL Jerseys Outlet, have been talking freely with Barbadian police, now that they are away from their alleged captors. |
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