By Olinda Poole
The mother of a three-month-old baby is left traumatised after an unfortunate ordeal with a taxi driver last week.
Thirty-year-old Mayaka Morrison-King said she joined the private hire car in front of the Woodlands Hospital in Carmichael Street to her Crane, West Coast Demerara home. The The decision to use the road taxi was her inability to get a car from the taxi service, Confidential Cabs.
According to her the driver who initially said the fare was $6,000 agreed to $5,000 after which they left.
However, she made a decision to pay him the $6,000 but he demanded an additional $4,000, taking the fare to $10,000.
In the car, the man was demanding that she pay him the money and that he did not care about her concerns.
The emotional mother said, while the cameras on her home caught the driver taking off with her as she was trying to get out with her baby and after he followed her into the yard as attempted to escape from him with her baby to safety – it did not capture him fighting her at the door to get her purse after which he took the money out.
During our telephone interview, Mayaka said the entire situation has left her shaken, as she is now in constant fear, thinking that he will return to her home.
She said looking at her baby it is difficult, given that she could have dropped him during the unfortunate situation.
Her baby, who was exposed to the rain, became sick after the incident, but he is recovering and doing better now, she said.
The incident she said was reported to the Vreed-en-Hoop police station.