THE POLICE have interrogated the grandmother of the eleven-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped by an obeahman on May 11, and she is maintaining that she did not give the child voluntarily to the man.
Icilda Madden, of Pratville, Manchester has admitted that she allowed the obeahman to give the girl "a bath" on the day that she went missing.
Nordia Madden, a student of Pratville All-Age School, Manchester has been reported missing since May 11.
Madden and Vincent George Miller, a farmer of Rock Road, Clarendon, were questioned by the police on Saturday.
Attorney-at-law Dwight Reece who is representing Madden and Miller was present at the interrogation. Madden was taken into custody on May 16 while Miller was taken into custody on May 14. They were both released after the interrogation.
Miller, it is reported, was the last person to have seen the girl before she went missing because it was at his house that the obeahman who is known as 'Little David', gave the girl the bath. Miller is reported to have provided the pan and water for the obeahman to administer the bath.
The police also discovered that the obeahman went to Madden's house and dug up certain items which he described as "destruction" planted in her yard and took them away.
Mr. Reece told The Gleaner yesterday that following the interrogation on Saturday the police are no longer going on the theory that there was an abduction. Investigations will continue until the girl is located. People have reported seeing the obeahman with a little girl in Trelawny and in St. Catherine. It is also reported that since the girl allegedly went missing, she had called Madden 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 reports that it was Madden who contacted the obeahman with a view to have him remove 'destruction" in her life because her husband had left her, her son was mentally, and the missing girl was "sickly."
The police report that Little David frequents May Pen, Clarendon and surrounding areas, reading palms.
