By FRANCIS JOSEPH
It has been one week since two year-old Angelo Tobias has gone missing.
The intrigue continues as to where exactly is little Angelo.
It must be a disappointing few days for the Hunters Search and Rescue team as this unit has had remarkable success finding living and dead people.
This one in Tobago is proving difficult….at least for now.
The island of Tobago is relatively small, yet Angelo’s tiny body cannot be seen. The latest news on Monday is that a cousin of the toddler has been detained by police in Tobago. And the search is on for a fourth person. His mother and her boyfriend are also assisting the police.
Searches have been conducted around Angelo’s home at Cambridge Trace, off Goodwood Main Road. Police, including the Homicide Bureau, have ruled out that Angelo walked more than 100 metres in the darkness last Monday and fell into the sea and drowned.
They say it was virtually impossible that Angelo, at age 2, could have walked down the steps at home alone and through a steep incline, over a fallen tree, and towards the sea….in total darkness.
The search turned to the Studley Park area on Sunday but he was not found. Police sources say that they received information that Angelo may have been killed and dumped at Studley Park, but there is no such evidence.
Angelo was last seen on Mother’s Day with his mother, Khalifa Tobias and Shannon Miller in Scarborough. Khalifa said she missed Angelo from the house shortly after 7 pm on May 11. But CCTV footage showed Khalifa and Miller walked towards a bar on the Goodwood Main Road at 7.09 pm and returning at 7.49 pm….and Angelo was not with them.
On Sunday, Tobago House of Assembly Chief Secretary, Farley Augustine, said Tobagonians have a right to be damn vex over conflicting accounts and unanswered questions surrounding the case.
He added, “We have a right to be damn vex about how this is unfolding and the Nancy stories that are being peddled.”
Augustine said a two-year-old child could not simply vanish without explanation.
