Baby, please come home ... Hurting mother wants help to find Jullissa Reid

Tears streamed down the face of Sasha Gay Hylton as she struggles to come to terms with the sudden disappearance of her teenage daughter, Jullisa Reid. The 13-year-old, who attends The Queen's School, did not return home last Friday and was last seen in a bus heading to downtown Kingston.

"Right now me can't even think straight. Mi just don't know where mi baby is. Jullisa don't have any enemy. She is like any other teenager. She has a free flowing spirit and sometimes she nuh like do chores but she is a good girl," Hylton said, between tears.

Hylton said that she was told by one of her daughter's friends that Jullisa was last seen on a Coaster bus heading to downtown Kingston, from Constant Spring Road, but she did not get off at her regular stop.

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"Her friend attend Merl Grove and they live close to each other. She said she saw Jullissa with a next girl and when she got off she was waiting on my daughter to come off the bus too, but she didn't. She continued her journey with the next girl," she said.

The distraught mother said she later contacted the other student's father to see if he would have any knowledge of Jullisa's whereabouts.

"He did confirm that his daughter wasn't home either and stated that she has ran away from home on several occasions and he was at his wits' end," she said.

Hylton described the last few days without her daughter as being like a nightmare.

"Mi a wonder if she follow her friend go somewhere and fraid to come home. I am just trying to stay positive because me nuh wah think say somebody carry her away or so on. All that is running through my mind if she OK, eat, sleep or if she lay down somewhere dead," the distraught mother said.

At least one person has claimed to have come in contact with Jullisa and the other schoolgirl since they were reported missing.

"On Saturday, a girl called me and told me that she pick up my daughter and her friend the night before because they were dirty and said they were lost. She said she took them home, gave them a meal, let them shower and spend the night. She said she give them some money and tell them to go home the next day. She even ask me if mi a go beat mi daughter and mi tell her no," she said.

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Hylton said the woman told her that the girls were seen in Red Hills, St Andrew, and were taken to her home in Plantation Heights, not far away.

The STAR made contact with the woman, who although tight-lipped, admitted to accommodating the teenagers at her home for a night. She, however, refused to answer any more questions and disconnected the call.

Hylton's world, however, has been turned upside down since Jullissa went missing on Friday. She is hoping for some positive news.

"Julissa, if you are reading this, please come home. Mi just want her to know say me naah beat her or anything. Mi wah know say me baby alive. Jesus Christ, mi wa she know say me can't sleep and mi fraid. Mi can't live without mi baby, please just come home," she said before erupting in tears once again.

Anyone who may have information of the whereabouts of Jullisa Reid is being asked to contact the Gold Street police at 876-922-3637, police 119 emergency number, or her mother at 876-301-6359 or the nearest police station.