Months have passed since Mishaadien Stemmet went missing, and her mother, Shamielah McConnie, is left to bear the heavy burden of uncertainty and the desperate hope for her daughter’s safe return. McConnie said that the past few months of not hearing any news about her teen daughter’s disappearance has been very heartbreaking for her. The 19-year-old woman was last seen leaving her aunt’s home in Old Woodlands, Mitchells Plain, on May 7 last year.
McConnie said: “I asked my mother and sister-in-law and they said as per normal she got dressed and she went out. “Then my brother’s daughter asked her, ‘where are you going, why are you looking so nice’. And Mishaadien said, ‘no, it’s only rich people that wear nice stuff and that can go out’.
She likes to make jokes like that.” She said that detectives have been communicating with her sister-in-law who opened the case and has been asking her for updates, however no positive leads have been received. She explained: “Last month my sister-in-law let me know that the detective was at her house to fetch clothes to go and take their dogs to search for Mishaadien in Heinz Park, because one of her friends said they saw her there, but they couldn’t tell us when and the cops didn’t find anything. The last time McConnie heard from her daughter was a day after her disappearance when she messaged her on Facebook past midnight asking why she was online so late, but she has not heard from her since.
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