Tag: Frances Bodden Children’s Home

Children’s homes to stretch CI$100k for upgrades

Children’s homes to stretch CI$100k for upgrades

| 16/08/2023 | 10 Comments

(CNS): The government has approved an additional CI$100,000 for the CAYS Foundation, a non-profit organisation that runs the Bonaventure Boys’ Home, the Frances Bodden Children’s Home and a secure facility for children on care and protection orders, Phoenix House. The money will be used for much-needed upgrades to the organisation’s IT network, additional housing facilities […]

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Girl sexually assaulted at care home

Girl sexually assaulted at care home

| 05/11/2021

(CNS): Police are currently investigating allegations that a male intruder has been entering the Frances Bodden Children’s Home in Bodden Town and sexually assaulting an underage girl. Officers were called to the secure care home on Wednesday after a report of the man climbing into one of the bedroom windows at the house the previous […]

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Child hospitalised from troubled care home

Child hospitalised from troubled care home

| 31/12/2019 | 11 Comments

(CNS): A teenage resident at the Frances Bodden Children’s Home was taken to hospital Christmas Eve following what is believed to be a suicide attempt. Officials from the Department of Children and Family Services have failed to respond to CNS enquiries about the incident but the RCIPS has confirmed that police and medics were called […]

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Two teens on run from kids home

Two teens on run from kids home

| 16/12/2019

(CNS): Just over a week after she turned up safe and well having absconded from the Frances Bodden Children’s Home earlier this month, Motesha Mothen (16) is on the run again, but this time she is believed to be with fellow resident Teshay Bryan (14). Both girls were last seen on Saturday, 14 December, at […]

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Repeat teen runaway absconds from girls home

Repeat teen runaway absconds from girls home

| 04/12/2019 | 6 Comments

(CNS): Motesha Mothen (16), who is now a serial runaway, has absconded from the Frances Bodden Children’s Home and the police are asking for the public’s help to track her down. She was last seen on Tuesday, 3 December, at about 2:50pm near the Cayman Islands Hospital. She was wearing a bright pink sweatshirt with […]

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Missing woman and teenager found safe and well

Missing woman and teenager found safe and well

| 09/02/2019 | 0 Comments

(CNS): The RCIPS has confirmed Facebook postings that Dorlee Wright (49) was found safe and well yesterday. The George Town woman was reported missing on 6 February after she had not been seen by friends and family since Monday, 4 February. The police gave no other details about locating Wright but thanked the public for their […]

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Teenage girls missing again

Teenage girls missing again

| 05/02/2019 | 19 Comments

(CNS): Motesha Mothen (16), a resident of the Frances Bodden Children’s Home and regular runaway, and Teshay Bryan (13) from George Town, who is a student at John Gray high School, have both absconded, police said as they issued a release asking for the public’s help in finding the girls. Neither of the teenagers have […]

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Both missing teenagers found safe and well

Both missing teenagers found safe and well

| 19/01/2019 | 4 Comments

(CNS) UPDATED MONDAY: Police said Sunday morning that Teshay Bryan (13) from George Town, who was reported missing after she failed to return home from school on Thursday, has been found and appears to be in good health, according to the RCIPS, who thanked the public for their assistance in finding her. Bryan was seen […]

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Repeat teen runaway located by police

Repeat teen runaway located by police

| 15/10/2018 | 10 Comments

(CNS) UPDATED: Police have confirmed that they have found Roseanna Redden (16), apparently in good health, with the help of the public. The repeat teenage runaway absconded from the Frances Bodden Children’s Home in Bodden Town on Sunday, 14 October. She had last been seen in the afternoon at the John Gray High School at about […]

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CAYS sounds alarm over troubled teens care

CAYS sounds alarm over troubled teens care

| 07/08/2018 | 65 Comments

(CNS): The manager of the CAYS Foundation, which runs the Frances Bodden Children’s and Bonaventure Boys’ homes for troubled teenagers under care or court orders, has sounded the alarm over the continued lack of political commitment to the multitude of challenges some kids in Cayman are facing. From the horrific trauma of sexual abuse to […]

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Police concerns grow over repeat teen runaway

Police concerns grow over repeat teen runaway

| 09/07/2018 | 8 Comments

(CNS): The RCIPS has put out another call urging the public to help them find 15-year-old Motesha Mothen, who ran away from the Frances Bodden Children’s Home last week. The teenager, who is originally from West Bay, left the home on Thursday and was last seen on Friday morning, 6 July, at about 9:00am on Birch Tree […]

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