Dear friends,
The staff, affiliate Federations, volunteers & sponsors of ChildFund Caribbean wish to express our solidarity and support to the family & friends of 14 year old Shanice Jemmott of Layou area, as well as the authorities such as the Police & Social Services who are in avid search of Shanice.
We are urging the public to use your free time to search as well to disclose any information as all information at this point, little as it may seem could be of the greatest significance; such as whether she was seen at hangout spots other than school or home, whether she had spoken of running away or whether she had expressed been scared of a particular someone etc.
We are asking all her friends and classmates to speak with their teachers and parents or the authorities to inform them of any observations of Shanice in the last few weeks and months, anything she may have confided or you may have overhead. There are several reasons why teenagers go missing be it voluntarily or involuntarily.
These include:
• Family Dysfunction
• To escape physical, sexual or emotional abuse
• Because the teen has become pregnant, or has fathered a child
• Due to drug abuse or addiction
• Attempts to return to a prior family home or to escape care homes
• Absent parents who have taken the child/teen
• Depression & Anxiety
• Issues with peer pressure & puberty
• Difficulty coping
• Strangers who have abducted the child/teen
If you have any reason to believe she was abducted and you are suspicious of a particular person please inform a friend or the authorities of the particular characteristics and personality of the person and any information on property or hang out spots of that person.
Sometimes the abductor is harboring the minor in just two houses away from the family home, or has taken minor to a very secluded forest area (most likely sheltered), and sometimes the abductor has taken the minor illegally to a neighboring country – all very real examples which have occurred in Dominica though eventually all these minors returned or were found.
Please, let us all come to her aid and set up community watch with, youth groups, parent & community groups and individuals. Let us help in the search of all caves, boat houses, farms, gardens or shacks, every crook & cranny of our island until we find her.
May God be with Shanice.
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God help this child, please let her return to her mom, lead her to the right path, i kno the pain her mom is going through. lord be with her family especially her mom dear lord.
dear lord,bring her home safely.plz.u knw where this child is.faith is the victory.
This is a real sad situation someone out there must have seen her…..this is not the time to keep things to yourself…. if u have seen her please please please say some thing to someone, tell a friend family a stranger if u are afraid so they could contact the police and other relevant authorities. My prayers are with the family of this little girl….Dominica is a close knit society everyone knows everyone or someone who knows somebody….Please help bring this little girl home.
May God be with this child. As a teenager myself, I just hope that she is safe and that she has not run away… God bless her parents and family.
sorry, but there are also people selling people to the devil to build them big houses on the hill.but i am sorry for them because when the almighty glorious comes down it will be hell fire siner,repent and turn away from your wicked ways.and to shanice,s family hold on, plant your feet in god don,t join the wicked in his skim.pray, pray, pray.the lord will see you all through.
I believe you 100+ % .
i beleive that the Police oficers are not doin much to find
the this young girl……..more should be done…………
.an as her father is police!!!!!!!!!please come on
heavenly father….
jus want to ask u to shower ur blessings on this 14yr old
shanice.Father jus lay ur hands upon her and guide her where ever
she maybe dear Father…..bless her,keep her……..Amen
Are community search being conducted ? what are we doing to find Shanice ? More should be done.
i hope they find shanice jemmot please bring her home
My heart goes out to shanice and her family …. I pray that she will be found…
Is this little girl still alive??? Teens on the island has no security, not from the public, not from there
teachers, not even from their parents. No one to protect these children. Dominica is so small and they
can not find this child.
Magway sah. No one has seen the child, no one? Are villagers helping in the search effort? Prayers are being lifted up for Shanice.
its so sad 2 hear thingz like dat is happenin in our small country dominica n cant find out aniting ……………………… it could hav been ani one of us dominicians dnt be slow in findin this girl she has her whole life ahead of her
Thank -You
Did Shanice have a mobile (cell) phone? If she did, have the police contacted Lime/Didicel, because if the phone has been used since she disappeared, they can pin point the location of where it was used.
I dont know you or your family, but as a mother I feel deeply for you. Stay strong.