ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — St Elizabeth police have activated a high alert for a British six-year-old girl whose mother says she was abducted by her other parent and taken to Jamaica, over a year ago.

Black River police on Thursday issued an alert for Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay of Walthamstow, London, who they say was reported missing on Thursday, April 9, 2026.

Reports are that Tau Kleio was transported to Jamaica by a relative.

The child’s mother, London School of Economics lecturer Samar Rodriguez, has been appealing for her return for several months, speaking to both local and international media.

Rodriguez told United Kingdom (UK) newspaper The Guardian that she believes her ex-partner, Athena Belle-Fairplay, also known as Natalie Bartlett-Foster, with whom the lecturer had a shared custody agreement, has taken the child to Black River in St Elizabeth, Jamaica.

The report said that in February 2025, Belle-Fairplay failed to drop off the child at a London train station where she had agreed to meet Rodriguez.

The Guardian said UK authorities confirmed that Belle Fairplay flew to Jamaica with the child despite court orders forbidding the child’s removal from the country without court permission.

Despite coming to Jamaica and enlisting a private investigator, Rodriguez has been unable to locate either her ex-wife or daughter.

Rodriguez also expressed frustration with the Jamaican Central Authority, which is responsible for facilitating the country’s treaty obligations, including the Hague Convention for child abduction.

Local attorneys told The Guardian that “the case has been hampered by delays by the JCA and the authority’s insistence that it was Rodriquez’s responsibility to locate their ex-spouse and daughter”. At the same time, the JCA said in a statement that the case was “heavily hampered by the absence of a proper address to locate the child”.

As the child is with her mother, issues with designating the child as missing also reportedly arose, the report said.

Black River police say Tau Kleio was last seen wearing a pink coat with butterflies, and she is of brown complexion, medium build and about 104 centimetres (three feet six inches) tall.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay is asked to contact the Black River police at 876-965-2232, the police emergency 119 number or the nearest police station.

An undated photo of Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay and her mother, Samar Rodriguez