Teenager found safe after going on run
(CNS) UPDATED Monday: Police have confirmed that sixteen-year-old Motesha Mothen was found safe and well, Monday. The teenager had gone on the run from the Frances Bodden Children’s Home in Bodden Town on Christmas Eve less than one day after returning to the home having gone on the run several days before.
She had last been seen shortly before 2:30pm on 24 December at the Cayman Islands Hospital in George Town. She was wearing a black blouse, yellow sweater and black and yellow pants. She is about 5’4”, of medium build, with short black hair, brown eyes and a brown complexion.
Police are urging the public to once again help them find the young repeat runaway.
Meanwhile, Jared Johnson (15) was found safe and well with the help of the public, some ten days after he ran away from home.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Motesha Mothen is asked to call Bodden Town Police Station at 947-2220. Anonymous tips can be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777 or website. Tips can also be submitted anonymously via the Miami-based call centre of Crime Stoppers at 800-8477(TIPS), or online.
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And the people who have aided them? Any report on those people?
There needs to be a serious review of this home and what is happening to “our” children there. I had a close friend of mines that was housed there for a while when I was growing up( her mother had serious mental issues and her father was no where to be found). She would spend some weekends at my house and there was always a sense of deep rooted sadness in her eyes when she had to return. I asked her once if there was anything she wanted to talk about ( in regards to what was happening there) we had a very long awkward silence and she then said no. I always sense something was not right but as a child I did not know what where or who to go to without exposing or possibly embarrassing my friend ( as teenagers that is a definite no no:( ). The representative from Savannah who lives just down the road from this home, should be as passionate about making sure our children are safe as he is about what two grown consenting adults of the same sex do in the privacy of their bedroom.
Great story up until the last sentence regarding the rep from Savannah.
The Rep from Savannah is doing nothing for his area.show me what he have done so far.Its time for him to go.we need new young blood..
This home needs to be investigated properly. Obviously, something is going on there.
These false alarms cost more to the community and its resources than the ankle bracelet that ought to have been affixed after the first dozen awols.
The court should allow the Stewards of Francis Bodden, as legal wards of these children, the authority to use tracking devices on those that have a history of exceeding the boundaries of their oversight. Repeat violations should be referred to juvenile detention, not back into the open door home.
“Frances” Bodden, if you please.
Just let her go..enough of this foolishness.. obviously they can’t keep her in..
With things like this going on in the local children’s homes why do people expect any different? I know dealing with teenagers is very difficult – that is why it is so important to hire educated, trained, professional individuals to manage these homes and properly assist these troubled children!
She doesn’t want to stay, let her go. I think the big question should be, who’s aiding her stay away?
I think the real question is what is so bad at this place that had forced this child to run so many times to get away? This home must have something seriously wrong with it for so many children to continuously run. Perhaps they should fire every employee and start fresh. Also start with new vendors that come into the home so that the children can feel safe with the adults and people around them.
A review of Francis Bodden Mgmt is long overdue, but also remember that these kids are wards of the court, prob because one or more primary caregivers are some combo of: (a) deceased, (b) servicing jail sentences, (c) addicted to drugs, (d) clinically insane, (e) dangerous offenders. In the wings there are also miscreant uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, older siblings, and friends/sex partners, perhaps only a few degrees clear of the situations above, that are trying to meddle and influence. Their job, even if carried out competently, is not always easy. Tracking devices would be a good idea, with arrests and charges for those illegally harbouring the repeat Amber Alertees. The later doesn’t seem to be happening, and whoever is in charge hasn’t sought court approval for the former.
It is entirely possible that there is a problem at the home but let’s not speculate. These are teenagers and they all react to growing pains differently. There should be specialist assigned to them to see what is the root cause of their particular problem. Furthermore many of these -(not necessarily those mentioned in this article) who have suffered sexual abuse and other types of abusive experiences so naturally they are going to be more challenging than others.
Ugh. After all these times, who cares any more. Not her, not the staff at the home, and least of all the people who shelter her while on the run. When it’s a weekly occurrence, with no efforts made to change the situation and no consequences for those who help her, this ceases to be newsworthy I’m afraid.
She’s been spotted in WB. How hard is it for the RCIPS to track her down?
I’m sorry to say but at this point this child’s runaway habits making the news is having a negative affect on the media reports of other children who are ACTUALLY missing. Now people are more likely to roll their eyes when there’s a report of a young child that can’t be found by the family or boys/girls home…
Agree 100%
What age do they leave these homes permanently?
18 when she is legally an adult.