(MENAFNEditorial) (TRINIDAD EXPRESS) - THE WOMAN who claimed she and her six-year-old son were kidnapped, admitted to the court on Thursday that she made the false report because she has a gambling problem.
Sapna Chinyan spent $30,000, the last of the money she and her husband had in their account, then reported to the police that she used the money to pay a ransom for she and her child to be released from four men.
Chinyan, 32 a homemaker of Couva was charged with wasteful employment of the police. She reported to officers at the Couva police station that at 7.30a.m. last week Thursday, she and he son were abducted from their home by four unarmed men and taken to Claxton Bay. She said the men demanded a $30,000 ransom for their release.
That morning Chinyan reported to the officers that she was allowed to leave to collect the ransom while the men kept her son.
Police investigations included the viewing of CCTV footage and it was seen that the woman was not telling the truth. Constable Visham Ramoutar of the Couva Criminal Investigation Department charged Chinyan.
She faced a justice of the peace at the Couva court last week and was placed on her own bail.
On Thursday, she appeared before senior magistrate Siumongal Ramsaran.
Attorney Natasha Mongroo said her client had a gambling problem. She said the $30,000 was all the money Chinyan and her husband had in their account. 'She (Chinyan) spent $30,000 and she couldn't account for it. In her mind, that (making the report) was the only way.'
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