There has been no word regarding the sudden disappearance of a St. Ann woman whose last communication with relatives was that she was traveling from Montego Bay, in St. James to her home in Steer Town.Shevene Hayden, 22, last spoke with her mother Monica Coleman sometime after 10 p.m. on December 20 when Coleman called to inquire of her daughter how far she had reached on her journey from Montego Bay . “That was the last me talk to har, me call har everyday and a just voicemail, she have two phones and a just voicemail me getting,” Coleman told the North Coast Times last week as she spoke about her missing daughter. “A don’t feel like nothing happen to her, a feel like she reaching out to me for help,” the mother said, noting that she has no idea where her daughter could be or if she was in any trouble. Coleman told The Times that she was not home when her daughter, who lives in the same yard as she does, at Hollywood in Steer Town left for Montego Bay, on December 20. She explained that she spoke to her daughter about 8 p.m. by telephone and she was told that she was in Montego Bay waiting on a ride to get home.
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The mother said her daughter asked her to put some cornrows in a friend’s hair as she was making her way back to style the friend’s hair. After a certain time passed, and Hayden didn’t show up, another call was placed to her phone. The mother said this time her daughter told her she was in a taxi heading to St. Ann.Coleman said Hayden and her boyfriend, who lives in the Discovery Bay area, were to attend the popular Igloo party on the said night. She said the boyfriend became concerned when calls to Hayden’s phone went answered. That’s when the boyfriend called Coleman and asked her to try reaching her daughter. She did but got no response.”Me call straight through the night, me no sleep, every minute me call har and har phone just ring but no answer,” the mother explained. She said when her daughter did not return home that night. Coleman reported her missing the following day, to the St. Ann’s Bay police. Ms Coleman is however concern that the police did not take her report seriously. “Me carry a picture and give them and a yesterday (January 5 – two weeks after the initial report) dem a call me back and a ask me fi har picture and me give them a picture from when,” the mother claimed. She explained that relatives and friends, without the assistance of the police, had printed posters of the missing woman and distributed them in the Montego Bay Area. She said they had planned to visit Mobay to search for her, however, she said that there were concerns about going into what some people have described as a ‘bad place’ to look for the missing woman.
“I don’t know Mobay so me can’t even go down here go search for her and every time we plan to go the people (relatives and friend) keep saying Mobay a bad place so we can’t just go down there so go search fi har,” Coleman explained.
She said her daughter had recently returned from the Bahamas having travelled to that island in November. The mother said she had advised her daughter against traveling to Bahamas and that said her trip did not go according to plan and she returned in December.
Ms Coleman said she has no idea if her daughter’s disappearance has anything to do with her Bahamas trip.
She is however hoping that her daughter who was to start a job at RIU hotel, two days after she disappeared, will return home safely.
“She a big woman now still but we miss har and we really want her to come home, we all love her,” Coleman said of the third of her six children.
Ms Coleman said her daughter is not a bad person and would normally return home once she goes out. “The only place she like go a parties but she always come back home.”
Coleman is appealing to persons who might have information on her daughter’s whereabouts to contact the nearest police station.
The mother said she has taken her daughter’s disappearance very hard and has not been eating or sleeping well. She said her daughter is very jovial and friendly.
