Twelve year old Belize City student Kenya Lucas should have been in school since classes started on Monday but tonight the young girl remains missing. Three weeks ago Kenya Lucas packed a bag with clothes and left her family’s home on her father’s bicycle and has not returned. The child’s mother Janice Palacio visited our studios this evening to appeal to her daughter to come home and to anyone who may know where is her child to contact the family.
Janice Palacio, Mother
“I don’t know where she is right now. I don’t know where she is, which house she is.”
Jacqueline Godwin,
What is it you want to tell your daughter?
Janice Palacio,
“If anybody finds her please bring her home to me because I need her to go to school and I don’t want her to be out there and have no education in her head. I need her back. If anybody has her, please bring her for me.”
Jacqueline Godwin,
You said that your daughter took a bag with some clothes, so you believe she has run away. Do you know why she wanted to leave home?
Janice Palacio,
“No ma’am, she didn’t tell me why. She just left and gone with her father’s bike and she hasn’t bring it back yet, her father has to walk to go to work.”
Janice Palacio says this is the first time that her daughter has left home. If you know where twelve year old Kenya Lucas is tonight please call the nearest police station or her family at telephone number 207-8516.
