BROOKLYN, NY – Police have detained two people including a 19-year-old woman after rescuing an eight-month-old baby, who had been kidnapped on Tuesday.
Police said Wednesday that the child, Sophia Rivas, was found on Tuesday night, hours after her Venezuelan-born mother reported that she was at her Chaguanas home in Central Trinidad when the child was taken by a woman without her permission.
“Sometime later, she received a telephone call from the suspect demanding TT$20,000 (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) in cash for the safe release of her daughter,” the police said in a statement.
They said that acting on intelligence, members of several law enforcement agencies traveled to Curepe, just on the outside of the capital, “where they found and clinically extracted the baby in a safe manner.
“A 19-year-old woman of California, Central Trinidad, and another suspect, who were found in the company with the victim at the time, were arrested in connection with the incident,” the statement said, adding that investigations are continuing.
Meanwhile, the police said members of the Child Protection Unit (CPU) have arrested a man on seven counts of sexual penetration of a child and one count of attempted suffocation.
They said a 10-year-old child had confided in her aunt and grandmother that she was being repeatedly raped. A report was made to the Child Protection Unit North Eastern Division and investigations revealed that during the period March 2019 and 9th September 2020, the girl was sexually assaulted on numerous occasions by the suspect and during one encounter he attempted to suffocate her using a pillow.
The 44-year-old unemployed man is due to appear virtually at the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court.
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