Fourteen year-old repatriated from US

Accra, Jan. 22, GNA - A Fourteen year-old boy arrested in the United States on March 4, 2000, without any travelling document has been repatriated to Ghana.

The boy, who was 10 years old when he arrived in the US, was returned to Accra on Wednesday, on board a KLM flight accompanied by two escorts from the US Department of Homeland Security.

He was handed over to officials of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) who would hand him over to the Department of Social Welfare after investigations.

While in the US, there were attempts to find a foster home for the boy who was educated in a High School but the uncooperative attitude of his father who was then in Ghana made it impossible since that would have infringed American laws.

He was arrested wandering in the Federal Inspection Area of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, after disembarking from a Ghana Airways flight without any travelling document.

The boy was reported to have told the security officials that he was born in Ghana on 27th July 1989 and was a pupil of St Martin De Pores School at Dansoman, in Accra.

According to Chief Superintendent Patrick Timbila of the CID Headquarters, the case was being considered either as a stowaway or child trafficking, saying, the Police would investigate to establish how he managed to get to the US.

According to the CID, several passengers on the Flight claimed to have seen him on board when they took off from Accra.