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Mother in wheelchair cries for 'runaway' daughter
...'COME HOME ERICA'!

By Anna Poliah

A WHEELCHAIR-BOUND mother broke down and cried as she pleaded for her “runaway” daughter to return home and tell her what went wrong.

Erica Joseph was in the company of her husband, former Light Heavyweight Champion of Trinidad and Tobago, Wendell Joseph when she made the emotional plea at TnT Mirror’s Barataria office.

Erica’s daughter, Eileen Joseph, 19, left the family on July 3 after leaving for classes at The College of Accounting and Secretarial Skills, San Fernando.


She never returned home. Both Erica and Wendell insist that they are not responsible for Eileen’s predicament

Wendell told Mirror he found Eileen liming in the Arcade in San Fernando after he paid the fees for her to attend summer classes. He related: “It was around 1.45 p.m. when I went to the school.

“I discovered that school had dismissed and found it strange.“I am in the habit of dropping off and picking up Eileen each day.

“She was in the habit of calling her mother or me to tell us whenever school dismissed early.” Wendell said he saw Eileen in the company of a male and questioned her.

“I decided to take her back to the school to get a refund of the money I had paid because I felt she did not want to go to school.

“At the school she just left and walked away,” Wendell related. Eileen has since appealed to her parents to leave her alone. She has also collected her stuff from her parents’ home.

But Erica said her heart is hurting over her “mama”.“I love her,” Erica cried. The grieving mother said Eileen was everything to her.

She said her heart hurts over hurtful remarks Eileen made to her.“She told me I am a cripple and a disgrace to her.“I never expected that from my own daughter; I did not ask to be in a wheelchair,” Erica said.

The mother of one said she and Eileen previously had a good relationship.

She displayed marks on her back that she alleged was a result of licks from a close female relative.

“This is what I have been living with recently,” she alleged.

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