Shannon Bedasie
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February 12th, 2008
A 13-YEAR-OLD girl was kidnapped in Couva on Tuesday night when three men stormed their home and attacked and robbed her father.
Simeon "Jimmy" Bedasie, 55, a driving school instructor/owner of Southern Main Road, McBean Village, said he and his teenage daughter Shannon Bedasie were staying in an apartment on the first floor of their house that was undergoing repairs.
Ref: Source 4
I am very concerned about this girl, specially because the father hasn't received any calls from the kidnappers. That's not a very good sign.
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Thirteen-year-old Shannon Bedasie begged the kidnappers not to hurt her sick father before she was silenced and dragged away . "I heard her telling them don't hurt him. Don't kill. He is sickly," said Simeon Bedasie, recalling the moments before she was snatched on Tuesday night. Simeon Bedasie, 55, begged yesterday that his daughter and only child be released. "I have no money to give. I can pay no ransom. All I want is for my child to come back home to me. Put her somewhere safe so that she can return," he pleaded . Bedasie, of McBean, Couva, is the owner/manager of Kenny's Driving School, a business known to many in Chaguanas and Port of Spain. The abduction of Shannon, a first form pupil of the Couva Private Grammar School, is the fourth kidnapping for money this year. She was snatched around 9 p.m. on Tuesday from her home which is being renovated. Bedasie, a diabetic, said: "I was in bed. I asked my daughter to squeeze my foot because it was swelling. Same time, we heard the dogs barking. I was getting up from the bed when three bandits rushed in with bandannas covering their faces and with cutlasses". Bedasie said he was pushed back onto the bed and his daughter was taken to the kitchen. "They asked me for the money I withdraw (from the bank) to fix the house. I told them I don't have any. They ask for jewelry and bank card. I said I don't have none". |
Little Shannon was released at a playground in Belmont. I am very glad for her and her family although I don't want to imagine the things she may have experienced once in captivity. I hope she gets the help she needs.