By RALPH BANWARIE Thursday, November 5 2009

TWO DAYS after a La Horquetta teen went missing, her disappearance is being treated as a possible kidnapping with police saying a ransom demand of $80,000 has been made for her safe release.

Naomi Williams, 14, is believed to have been snatched on Monday from outside the Malabar Composite School where she is a Form II student. A ransom demand was made on Tuesday afternoon.

Police reports revealed that Williams of Petra Crescent in La Horquetta, was standing outside the school when at about 3.10 pm a black Mazda car pulled up and a man grabbed the teen into the vehicle which sped off. A little over 24 hours, her worried grandfather Allan Williams, received the ransom demand. Williams told police he dropped off his granddaughter Naomi at school at 8 am. He returned in the afternoon to pick her up, but she was not around and Williams thought she had travelled home so he drove off.

When he returned home at about 8 pm, Williams discovered Naomi was missing.

Williams said when he called Naomi on her cellphone he only got a busy tone.

Naomi’s schoolmates told police she was seen with a 17- year-old boy who lives in Malabar. Police sources said when they visited the boy’s home, his relatives said he had not returned home after leaving several days ago. Investigations are now being carried out by detectives from the Anti-Kidnapping Unit.