16-y-o runs away from home after acting strangely

The parents of 16-year-old Kayan Golding are urging their daughter to return home after she ran away from home three weeks ago.

The teen's mother, Kadian Smikle, told THE STAR that the teen left home, barefoot, in a ripped pink blouse and grey shorts on May 17 after a strange incident happened at their home in Seaforth, St Thomas.

"She was inside the house and one mind seh come out a my room and guh in a fi har room and when mi guh in a fi har room mi see she a look wildish. Mi seh 'Wah happen to yuh?' and like she set like she aguh run off and mi hold har same time, tek the tablet from har and she resist out a mi hand mek all har blouse tear off," Smikle explained, adding that she ran after her daughter. But when she got outside, the teen started to throw stones at her, forcing Smikle to close the door. Then, after no longer hearing the stones hitting their house, Smikle called for her daughter but she did not answer.

"From that mi nuh see har, wi nuh know weh she deh," Smikle said, adding that prior to the incident, she and her daughter had no argument or altercation.

"To how mi see har that day, she not acting right, because she never used to behave like that and we never have no argument, none at all," Smikle said.

Smikle also told THE STAR that days after her daughter went missing, the teen called her on a private number to let her know that she is okay. But before the mother could convince her to return home, she ended the call.

"Mi miss her and mi love her and mi just want her to come home. Mi really love mi children them. A four a them and you know like how some mother would a leave them pickney and gone a dance and them things deh, mi deh here straight with mi kids them. Mi nuh leave them guh nowhere through thick and thin. If a one hand a banana, the whole a wi a eat. Wi nuh have it like that but wi duh wi best fi dem," Smikle said, adding that life has not been the same since her daughter left home.

"It's been hard on us enuh because we worried a lot, nothing nuh feel the same without her," Smikle said.

Similarly, Kayan's dad, Nashon Golding, is worried about his daughter and told the news team that since she left home, he has not worked.

"Mi cah sleep, mi cah eat, mi not working from wah day because mi afi a up and down a look for her," Golding said, adding that he is a mason and although his family relies heavily on his income, he wants his daughter home.

"Mi just want she come home suh wi can help her, carry her gah doctor suh she can alright. Because to how she act, something must wrong because a first mi see she act them way there," Golding told THE STAR.

Kayan is of slim build, short and dark-skinned. Anyone knowing her whereabouts is asked to contact 119.