In February, we told you about the desperate plight of Veronica Hamze, the widow of a Lebanese man, who claims to have been tricked into travelling to that country with her children before being kidnapped by her in-laws.
LAST WEEK, Veronica's mother and the children's grandmother visited Belize form Honduras to try and make a police report. She told Cherisse Halsall that Belizean police say they are unable to help her investigate her daughter's and granddaughters' kidnapping.
Alicia Alvarenga, Veronica Hamzee's Mother
"When she started going out with him, look. The thing is this guy according to, when he was her boyfriend he, well, he was a good person, you couldn't tell me about him, he was legitimately a good person. I don't know or you wouldn't imagine what the family was like. My daughters there are suffering too much and I well..."
Cherisse Halsall:
"Ma'am we often hear and read that Muslims act differently with their wives, so my question for you is, if you had any idea that something like this could happen with your daughter?"
Alicia Alvarenga, Veronica Hamzee's Mother
"No, I never imagined that they would take her that side, no.In no moment because I saw that they were living their lives here. They were living well her. I came and stayed with them."
Cherisse Halsall;
"Today you were here to make a report to the police, how did that go?"
Alicia Alvarenga, Veronica Hamzee's Mother
"Look, I came here to the police station with the intention that they help me. You know when you're a mother you become desperate for your children. Where do I come from? I'm from Honduras and I came to see what I can do to help my daughters to see how the authorities here can help because there in Honduras they say that since they left here that it's here that they have to help me."
"I came here to the station and there was a female officer and so I told her the case and I bring even documents to prove that these people aren't doing this for the love of the girls they're doing it for their own interest and I was showing her everything but she said she couldn't help me. She says they deal with murders and robberies here but only the ones localized here."
Veronica was accompanied on her travels by her sister who also remains in Lebanon.
