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Abducted dance instructor, son freed
Woman perplexed over the reason for their abduction; claims they were well treated
by Mark Ramotar


FREED: A relieved Gem Rodrigues with sons Akeem, 6, and seven-month-old baby Shamar.

 (Picture by Cullen Bess Nelson)

THE female dance instructor, who with her six-year-old son, was reportedly kidnapped by three masked men last Monday and freed some five days later, was yesterday still perplexed about the reason she and her son were abducted in the first place.

Gem Rodrigues, 26, and her son Akeem, 6, were reportedly kidnapped last Monday night in front of the `Let’s Dance Studio’, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown. The two were set free shortly after 21:00 hours Saturday in the vicinity of Eccles, East Bank Demerara. They were unharmed and the young woman said she and her child were well treated by their abductors.
The victim told the Police said she had been blindfolded. Then she and her son were dumped on the East Bank Public Road by the three men, who had held them hostage in a dilapidated building, the location of which she does not know

Monday, July 01, 2002