WESTERN BUREAU: The mother of the 12-year-old girl, who is alleged to have swapped her daughter for a piece of land, is still languishing in jail because there is no one to bail her.

Vivienne Campbell, a 38-year-old housewife of Rockland, St. Elizabeth, was on Tuesday transferred to the Lacovia Police Station lock-up from Santa Cruz, where she was incarcerated for the past three weeks, as there are no facilities to accommodate female prisoners there.

Campbell and her common-law husband Clarence Wanliss, 43, were each granted $80,000 bail in the Malvern Resident Magistrate?s Court on March 5. Mr. Wanliss took up his bail last Thursday when a relative visited the Santa Cruz Police Station and signed his bail bond.

Too old to post bail

Octavious Salmon, the elderly father of the 30-year-old man accused of cohabitating with the 12-year-old girl, had made arrangements to have Miss Campbell bailed, but was unable to do so because he is too old.

The girl appeared yesterday in the Family Court in Santa Cruz, where a decision was taken to leave her in state custody until April 20.

The Santa Cruz police had arrested Campbell and Wanliss for aiding and abetting the sexual molestation of their 12-year-old daughter and exposing a child to immoral behaviour.

grandmother's custody

Meanwhile, The Gleaner has been reliably informed that, on Monday, the Child Development Agency (CDA) took the couple's five children into state custody for care and protection.