Abducted woman reunited with family
WESTERN BUREAU — Some 24 hours after being abducted by two men inside her Bowen Hill community in St James, 27 year-old Corona Hill was reunited with her family.
The mother of four was abducted at about 11:45 pm, Tuesday, while on her way home from a church in Montego Bay. She was spirited away as her eight year-old son watched helplessly.
She was reunited with her family late Wednesday night, and underwent a medical examination the next day but neither the details of her ordeal nor the reason for her abduction were known. Her family was ecstatic to have her back alive.
“I feel good,” her young son, who was with her at the time of the abduction, told the Observer.
The experience, added Hill’s uncle-in-law, Wilbert Clayton, had been deeply upsetting for the family.
“In the end, things work out just the way we beg the good Lord for it to work; she come back alive,” he added.
Constabulary Communication Network officer for St James, Corporal Lancelot Tyrell, said Hill and her son were walking along Bowen Hill, Tuesday night, when they encountered a man sitting on the bonnet of a dark-colored car.
The man, the corporal said, then brandished a firearm and ordered the mother and child into the vehicle. Another man was sitting behind the steering wheel.
Hill and her son were threatened with the weapon and instructed not to scream. They complied.
The young boy was later pushed from the vehicle as the men drove away with his mother, leaving him to make his way home on his own.
Clayton remained puzzled about the reason for his niece’s abduction.
“I have no idea why any one woulda try hurt her in a that manner because she’s so pleasant. She always so humble and so nice,” he said softly.
He told the Observer that he had limited information of her ordeal but said Hill had returned home, on her own, late Wednesday night.
Her abductors, he said, had left her along the Whales Pond main road, close to their community. He could not say whether she was unconscious at the time.
He added that since her return home, Hill has complained that she was in pain.
“She a bawl fi her side and her back,” he told the Observer, adding that Hill had indicated that she was bound during her ordeal and that she had been unconscious at one stage.
