Police probe possible kidnapping of teenager

A 15-YEAR-old Grade 7 student attending Goroka Primary School was kidnapped by an unknown person last Saturday night at Banana Block in Goroka town.
The fate of the teenager is not known and her parents and relatives are worried about safety, searching every where to locate her.
She has been named as Nancy Nauro from Wando village in the Unggai-Bena district of Eastern Highlands, who was staying with her relatives at Banana Block when she went missing.
According to Highlands divisional police commander Simon Kauba, Nauro was staying near her relative’s house when an unknown suspect came around at 9pm and abducted her.
Kauba, who is also the Highlands assistant police commissioner, said Goroka police and the teenager’s relatives conducted a search for her but failed.
He said the girl was the daughter of a secondary school teacher teaching at Bena Bena Secondary School.
Kauba said the kidnapper must have locked Nauro up in a house somewhere and appealed to the people to report to police if they saw any suspicious person going around with a girl.
He said the girl was a student and needed to go back to school immediately adding, that the last school term started on Monday and no one had the right to deprive her from attending classes.
Kauaba said it was a criminal offence to harbour a criminal and the missing girl in their house.
He said any one seen harbouring the criminal would be arrested and charged.
Kauba said the police and the relatives of the missing girl needed assistance from the public to find the girl and return her to the family.
He also pointed out that kidnapping of girls was becoming very common in the highlands region.
He said many young girls were kidnapped in Mt Hagen city for sexual exploitation by a group of people and later released them to their families.
Kauba said police needed assistance from the public to minimise this new kind of crime.
He also appealed to teenage girls to stay home at night and take precaution while moving around.