Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer

St. Catherine:

A mother in St. Catherine is pleading for the safe return of her 16-year-old daughter after she was abducted Christmas morning on her way home from a function in the communtiy.

According to police reports, Sheena Pryce of Old Harbour Bay was returning from a Christmas function at about 2 o' clock, Christmas morning, when she was attacked and abducted by a man. Eye witnesses say she was punched several times by the man before he put a knife to the teenager's throat and took her away.

"I was told that she was coming home when this man hold her up with a knife, take her way and I do not see her since, and I do not know what to do," said Suzette Foga, Pryce's mother.

She said since her daughter's disappearance, the family has been receiving threats by phone that their house will be firebombed if investigations into Sheena's disappearance continued.

Meanwhile, the family says it is disatisfied with police investigations and are accusing the cops of tardy work. "I went to the police on Friday, December 29, and dem rough me up, tell me that if me want them to look into everybody house and that me have news about my daughter and don't want to talk," she claimed.

But Inspector Selwin Williams of the Old Harbour Police has denied the allegations and said the police were doing all they could to find Pryce based on the information it had so far.

"Right now we just have to investigate further," he said.