Missing toddler scandal rocks Britain

The 18-month-old baby of a woman who is under police investigation for immigration offences in Britain has caused massive public outcry, with police admitting that they have made a great mistake.

The child’s grandmother, 54-year-old Careworker Agatha Owsuah of London’s southern suburb of Peckham, should now be looking after the child after the mother was detained in a police station in Walworth. She has lashed out at how a police station could not ask for any form of identification before handing over a child, given that as immigrants they are repeatedly asked to show ID at every point from the bank to a new job.

Last Thursday the child was taken to the police station along with her mother after police took 36-year-old Cynthia Boakye into custody over alleged immigration offences. While at the station a number of people were contacted to request that they come and care for the child which seems to have resulted in conversations being overheard.

A relative was eventually organised to come to the station to collect baby Audrey after the step father said he could not due to work commitments. Mrs Owsuah believes that someone had heard the police make the call and then pretend to be the carer at the appointed time. On arrival at the station the bay was promptly handed over with no ID check asked for. It has since become obvious that the woman called for and the woman who collected the child was not the same.

Police have said they are making every effort to locate the woman, believed to be from Ghana, and added that there is no indication at this point that any harm has come to the toddler.