Missing girl's mother offers reward By Merrick Andrews,
Staff Reporter
WINSOME WILSON, the mother of Nordia Madden, the 12-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped by an obeahman, is offering an $80,000 reward for her daughter's return. Miss Wilson who works at a day care centre in Queens, New York in the United States, told the police about the reward last week, said Corporal Diane Bartley, Constabulary Commu-nications Network liaison officer at the May Pen police headquarters. Corporal Bartley said she expressed her intent to the police last week Tuesday. Meantime, police parties from May Pen and Central Kingston have been combing the locations they were told the missing girl was seen in St. Catherine, Clarendon and St. Ann. Hair clips belonging to Nordia, found at a house in Jackson Town, Trelawny on May 17, remains the police's strongest lead on the whereabouts of the girl, Corp. Bartley said yesterday. The police have also abandoned the theory that Nordia was abducted after her grandmother, Icilda Madden of Pratville, Manchester and Vincent George Miller, a farmer of Rock Road, Clarendon, were questioned at length by the May Pen police. The police have said that based on their investigations so far, they believe Nordia remains unhurt. Camesha Rhoden, 21, Nordia's half-sister told The Gleaner yesterday that their mother has sent out a plea to the self-professed obeahman, known as Little David, to release Nordia. According to Miss Rhoden, her sister is a sickle cell patient who visits the University Hospital of the West Indies on a monthly basis for treatment and medication. She adds that Nordia is scheduled to graduate from Pratville All-Age School in Manchester at month end. The last time Miss Wilson visited her daughters, was three years ago, said Miss Rhoden. Mrs. Madden and Mr. Miller were interrogated last month in the presence of their lawyer, Dwight Reece. The grandmother was taken into custody on May 16, two days after Mr. Miller. They were both released after the interrogation. It is reported that after the girl went missing, she had called her grandmother to find out why her photograph had been published in the newspaper and on television. Reports are that the "obeahman" had met Madden near the May Pen market on May 11. Madden was taken into custody based on further reports that it was she who contacted the obeahman with a view to having him remove destruction in her life because her husband had left her, her son was mentally challenged and the missing girl was 'sickly.' The police report that Little David frequents May Pen, Clarendon and surrounding areas, reading palms.
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