13 year old girl missing; abduction feared
It’s a documented fact that the vast majority of people reported to police as missing, are either found or voluntarily return within a day or two. For adults it’s usually a case of marital difficulties or an alcoholic binge, while for absent children it’s most often young love or family rebellion that prompts the flight from home. But as we in Belize are all too painfully aware, criminal abductions are not unknown … and tonight it’s that remote possibility that has one Belize City family very worried.
L.C. Austin Olivera, Father of Missing Girl
?If he has the child with him. He no have to be scared just release the child so she can come back home to her parents. Because it does not make sense that they hold her because I would not want them to hurt her none at all.?
Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting
Since Thirteen year old Daniela Olivera better known as ?Marcela? left her home on Iguana Street extension around six thirty on Sunday evening to go and buy pampers at this shop the girl remains missing. Family and friends have been searching the neighbourhood most of the day but to no avail. The child?s father B.D.F. Lance Corporal Austin Olivera says it is not like his daughter to runaway and she has never been away from home. Olivera says his daughter went to the shop on his black bicycle but when she did not return home fifteen minutes later he went looking for her. Olivera says he fears something terrible has happened.
L. C. Austin Olivera
?Well I would believe that because ever since I have know this child the farthest she would go is from school to home and most of the time you would see her with her next sisters them or maybe she would go to her aunty on the next street, the back street to go buy.?
Daisy Olivera, Aunt of Missing Girl
?Marcela is not a runaway little girl. She goes to school from school to home and right in the neighbourhood she shop. It is the first time that Marcela ever do this kind of thing.?
L. C. Austin Olivera
?I would say more or less she must be along with somebody because this is the first time that it happen and I no know my little girl to say come home and then runaway.”
Olivera, a standard five student at St. Ignatius Primary School, is known to her classmates as someone who regularly attended school and they do not believe she would have missed the first day of exams. The parents say they have also been troubled by a report they received while out looking for their daughter. According to Olivera, a family friend told them that they saw the young girl that night but that she was walking with an unidentified young man on Iguana Street. Oilvera strongly believes his daughter was on her way home when she was abducted.
L. C. Austin Olivera
?Well what really disturbs me right now is that from the time they told me that they saw her without a bike, and they saw her walking with somebody more or less I would believe that she must be somewhere in the neighbourhood, in my neighbourhood right there. Because then where can the bike be? I do not know. Someone must have seen and knows what is taking place.?
The child?s stepmother, Lieonsa Ack, says she has been raising Daniela since she was a baby and is deeply concerned about her daughter?s safety. Today Ack desperately searched the nearby swamps and visited homes to ask people if they had seen the young girl.
Daisy Olivera, Aunt of Missing Girl
?Her father and her mother are worried about her and now even myself the worry about her because I just saw her last night and to let them tell me this now, it is very sad so, so we cannot sit down we will stay the look. I walk the whole area in the areas out there. North Creek come right round, we come right back in the area. We walk way to the back nearly to the creek and nothing.?
This afternoon after Daniela?s sisters returned home from school they were overcome with emotion after hearing she had still not been found. The siblings would all walk together to school and were known to be close. They have filed a police report and today anxiously appeal for their loved one?s safe return.
Lieonsa Ack, Stepmother
?Marcela if you are out there please come home. I will not lash you, I will not do you anything. Please we need you.?
L. C. Austin Olivera
?The person who Marcela was with last night, please try to get the little girl home because she is very young. Exams are going on. Nobody no have anything against nobody out there. I wouldn?t want anything to happen to her or wouldn?t want anything to happen to that person but at least have conscious and send the child back home.?
If you know the whereabouts of thirteen year old Daniela Olivera, better known as Marcela, please call Lieonsa Ack at phone number 622-3276, Austin Olivera at phone number 663-9306 or the nearest police station. Olivera was last seen wearing a red blouse and navy blue skirt/pants. She was riding a black beach cruiser bicycle.
