I saw a flyer today at a Boquete restaurant stating that a 15 year old girl named Marquella went missing on June 13th at 7 a.m. Last seen at the Bruna Mercado. She was wearing a light blue traditional Ngobe dress. There is a $500 reward for info leading to her return. To report info re her whereabouts, the flyer said to call 6819-7905. I asked the staff if they had heard anything about her being found, since it has been over a week and they said no. Has anyone else heard anything about this?
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There was another missing girl from Boquete, also 15 yrs old in the papers today.
Sad to say, but typically 15 yr old Ngabe girls do run away with their boyfriends quite often. Not that we do not give it the proper importance, we do, but often times the girls go to the city or just run off on their own. Abductions are rare if not highly unlikely in Panama
Interesting. Olga, Could you post the link to that report from today's papers?
We would like to know if there is a report or flyer posted of a missing person, even a Ngobe girl, in the community. If someone posts this information, we should be aware of it, irrelevant of the reason the person may be missing. Minors run off with "boyfriends," and even are entrapped by a person(s) they have encountered, in every part of the world in the day we live in. Ngobe, western, Latino, doesn't matter. If they are fine and found, great. But if there is foul play, the quicker everyone is informed the more likely it is the person will be found. Here is an example of a deceived minor girl who was thankfully found in part due to a very quick response of putting the word out (in other words, the response wasn't, "well she probably ran off with her boyfriend...")- Alicia Kozakiewicz was 13 years old when she slipped out of her home in Pittsburgh to meet someone she had been chatting to online- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35730298
I called the number this morning and the woman who answered said the girl had already been found and was back in her home. I told her there was some information up in town that needed to be taken down. She said no, no she has been found.
Am I the only one that thinks it disturbing that this discussion has been pushed off the front page in less than a day, and seems to warrant zero reaction? If this had been an expat or tourist all hell would have been raised by now.
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I agree with you Brian. I asked a Panamanian woman about this and she told me that there was once a 9 year old Indian girl taken and when they caught the older man who took her, he said that a 9 year old is a "woman". She told me he had been prosecuted but gave no further details. Sickening.
For those of you that don't know where the Bruna Mercado is, it is downtown across from the old, unfinished building but on the same side of Main Street.
Maybe she ran away with a boyfriend as sometimes happens with young Ngobe and I trust this avenue has been pursued. But I hope a flyer isn’t the only action that has been taken to find her, the Ngobe have been here long before anyone else and just because they don’t have the resources expats do, money and means of persuasion, these issues deserve equal effort. I don’t know if the Ngobe have a local representative they go to, to approach the police, mayor or other authorities?