Mother of missing teen begs for her return
kadisha saragossa
There has recently been an increase in missing persons reported on the police blotter, but they are often followed by updates that the persons have returned home. That’s with the exception of cases like Janessa Jones, who was found murdered or Matthew Gonzalez who hasn’t been found at all. Tonight a Belize City mother is hoping that her sixteen year old daughter, Kadisha Saragossa, will be one of those who make it home safely. According to Andrea Saragossa, Kadisha left home after five on Thursday to visit a friend and her boyfriend. Considering her age, many might assume she just ran off with her boyfriend, but even he has been unable to reach Kadisha since she left his apartment that night. Andrea came to our studios today to make a plea to the public to contact her if they know where her daughter might be.
Andrea Saragossa, Mother of Missing Teen
“I wait for her until ten o’clock when the news come on and she did come home because I wasn’t feeling well, I have pressure. I went to sleep so the morning I get up bout afta six and I si dat Kadisha no come een. So I sent my son to the apartment and nobody wasn’t there so I seh maybe dehn gone dah Caye cause he dah fisherman.
andrea saragossa
I see him on the canal side and I stopped and I seh Giovanni where is Kadisha? He said Kadisha went home last night. He said Kadisha get a text dah fi he apartment after eight. So I ask ah how you noh know dah who, why you noh check ih phone? He seh he noh wah get inna ih business. So I tell ah you sure you noh got nothing fi do with Kadisha disappearance because she neva come home. He seh no. Ih seh dat she just get wah text and kiss ah pan ih cheeks and seh babes I di come back and she left. Ih seh he call and call ih phone and he noh get no response.
I investigate pan di Mahogany and dehn tell me she did go out there afta eight di night. She went and buy a phone card and a young man said they see her standing by a shop with a young lady and she got into a dollar van and she gone. But we call fi she phone; no response. Up to today we still di call ih phone every minute; no ansa. So I noh know if somebody have she hold against ih will or what because dat dah noh she, she noh really go nowhere. She have dis boyfriend and she noh have no lotta friends. She noh go nowhere from school, home and di only person weh ih si dah dis bwai right now weh I know about den. I noh think she just wah run away when she know I sick and I always tell she dehn pickney dehn stress me out and thing and I want she finish school. So I noh think she just wah run away.”
Delahnie Bain
“So she’s never run away from home?”
Andrea Saragossa
“No and she missing from Thursday up to now; about four days now and I worry. I want ask the public everybody fi dehn help. If dehn si ah anywhere please contact me at 607-8161 and I want ih come back home. I love ah, everybody miss ah.”
Kadisha is of Spanish descent, weighs about one hundred and thirty-five pounds and was last seen wearing yellow skinny jeans, a black blouse and black sandals. If you missed her mother’s number, it’s 607-8161.
So who was actually looking out for this child?
Free to hang out with her boyfriend until she is ready to come home on a school night no less. I believe the mom when she says this child had no reason to run away, I would have loved her as a parent, fortunately I had one that would have taken her medicine & her stick & whooped my @$$ all the way home the first time I parked my behind at some man’s apartment. Her boyfriend probably having gotten his, did not care who she gave sloppy seconds, he was minding his business.
I wish this child well & hope she is found alive.
A teen, has a boy friend, seem like she had most things going for her, so this cannot easily be checked off as a run a way teen.
The boyfriend was the last one to have seen her alive. Yet someone text her and she left in a taxi, went to buy a phone card, took another taxi and then disappeared into the night.
Police can trace her number to find the place where she might be, but I suppose even after four days they are still willing to go another day before anything is being done in this case.
There is a big chance that there is still the same or another serial killer in Belize. A few years ago some girls went missing and then found murdered, the killer of those girls were never found. The murders stopped for a few years, but then people start going missing again, and even found murdered. What is even sadder about this is that there is no forensic lab; or medical detectives in Belize who can actually solve any of these cases.
Good luck Miss Saragossa.
This mother should blame herself for neglecting her child.
maddyvanddijk: Belize’s only hope. it appears she/he’s a detective, forensic, politician..etc etc…a solution to every problem. PLEASE SAVE US MADDYVANDDIJK!!
Investigate the BF…she is sixteen….got a text…he mussi neva like it and COULD have something to do with her disappearance.
BZNinCALI, we live in society where kids are free and are allowed to date as a teen, which is normal in modern countries. Belize has a high statistic of teenagers pregnant or had children, and why is that so? It is so because Belizean mothers do not trust their daughters to make good decisions on their own, it is so because Belizean people look down on a teen with a boyfriend.
The result is the reality you now have in Belize, Belizean daughters feel they have to lie and hide their boyfriends from family to avoid shame or put-downs, and when they become pregnant they hide that as well till it’s too late.
Belizean mothers need to educate their daughters about sex and protection, be your daughter’s best friend; you can only achieve that by building a trusting relationship with her.
If I had parents that beat the crap out of me, my entire life would have been different today. It is that same only traditional thinking that set Belizean apart from the rest of the world.
Stop beating our daughters, love them instead.
CHILDREN ARE HAVING CHILDREN , PARENT GIVE CHILDREN TOO MUCH RECESS WITH FRIENDS , i KNOW SOME PARENTS WANTS THE BEST FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND TRY TO BE LENIENT BUT SOME TEENAGERS WANT TOG GROW UP BEFORE THE TIME OR AGAIN I CONTRADICT MY SELF GOD KNOWS WHAT GOING ON IN THE CHILD HOME …SEE
BUT IF YOU KNOW YOU ARE A GOOD MOTHER YOU CHILD SURELY NEED A LESSON TAUGHT BEATING WONT LEAD TO NOTHING PUNISHMENT WILL.
i HAVE TALKED WITH SOME PARENT WHO SAY MY DAUGHTA NO WHA GO DA COLLEGE SO I WHA MECK I STAY HOME AND HELP ME … HELLL NO! EDUCATION IS ESSENTIAL….. U QUEN STUDY BECASUE I SAY SO….
PARENTS IN THIS ERA YOU HAVE TO MIND YOUR CHILDREN BOYS AND GIRLS ……
mother and daughter want a good lashing!!!
@Maddy, I was a teenager & allowed to date @ 16 in Belize City, what I was not allowed to do was hang out at a man/boyfriend’s apartment unsupervised as a 2nd form student , we had a curfew. Back then, boys knocked on our doors & our parents not only knew who they were, they knew their parents. Young men walked us home, they didn’t have their way with us & sent us home. Sexuality is a part of who we are but we also need to be disciplined, we cannot have any child running the streets at all hours of the day & night. Not only do we have people justifying raping them(el alcalde blamed the 15 year old who was raped on her school campus), there were about 6 shootings in this area in the last two week, if we as parents are not looking out for our children, who will?.
I have openly discussed sexuality & birth control with my children, all of whom are now adults but when they were in school, their education was a priority & as a parent I intervened when I saw them being pulled in a direction that was contrary to their development. I live in California, I do not have the option or desire to beat my children all the way home if they chose to stay out so I stayed involved in their education from preschool through college & was hands on in their extracurricular activities & made sure they knew what was expected of them & it made a difference. Allowing our children the freedom to roam & providing them with birth control may prevent them from becoming teenage parents but it also opens them up to being misused by adults who have preyed on children in our country for as long as I can remember. Knowing my Mom would show up with her stick was incentive to get my backside back home at a reasonable hour. At 16, I had already graduated from High School & can look back with gratitude that my mother demanded that we read every day(I still do) & that having a child until I could afford one was out of the question because she was not raising grandchildren.
We need to stop allowing Tom, Dick & Harry to come into our homes & mounting our children & trying to pass it off as progressive thinking. My daughters & I have also had the opportunity to live, work & attend schools outside of Belize & the United States & managed to not to get knocked up as teenagers. I have three daughters Maddy, two are single, the eldest is married to a doctor, I may not be their best friend but I am their mother, my husband & I are the best advocate & cheering section they will ever have.
Seems like WE NEED A WHOLE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL EDUCATION……………..
AND………..
Television is a good medium FOR THAT.
I hope to God that she returns home safe and unharmed but in Belize it’s hard to tell…The first thing people look to is the mother saying she is irresponsible or neglecting her child but on the other hand in some cases especially in this day and age it is better to allow a controlled dating situation in Belize…Otherwise the said problems of child pregnancies, disappearances, abuse, and a list full of things are far more likely to happen…The only thing I will say I feel went wrong in this situation was the lack of restricted supervision and the age differences…Andrea I feel for you and you know the entire family is behind you…I’m praying and hoping that you get your young daughter back home safe…And to all those out there looking on and following this story please come together to put a start to the end of this nonsense in Belize…We have got to start somewhere to restore our beautiful country back to it’s golden day…
I wish the girl to return safely home …and as for the mother shame on you .I would even want to appear on the television if I was you.
What kind of parent are you the girl shouldn’t even be allowed to have a boyfriend and worst yet visit him at his house.
SHAME SHAME on you MOM
I hope they find her alive, four days gone and not a word is not good.
Wtf a teen dih goh out dah night by ihself goh look for man and her mother allows it ?