Children’s Authority takes charge of 13-year-old girl who was reported missing

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go has con­firmed that the 13-year-old girl who was re­cent­ly re­cov­ered af­ter be­ing re­port­ed miss­ing for 26 days is in its care.

In a me­dia re­lease, the Au­thor­i­ty said it would en­sure the child re­ceives the nec­es­sary psy­choso­cial in­ter­ven­tions and sup­port, guid­ed by es­tab­lished pro­ce­dures and the best in­ter­ests of the child.

The con­fir­ma­tion comes amid pub­lic con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the girl’s dis­ap­pear­ance and the pub­li­ca­tion of a video iden­ti­fy­ing her af­ter she was found by the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team, led by Sham­sudeen Ayube.