“Stop criticizing me”

ENGLAND - A Welshman who flew to the Dominican Republic to live with his internet girlfriend is now stranded in the country after she rejected him because he ‘doesn’t have any money’. Struggling mum-of-four Wilfa Soto Peguero claimed she agreed to get to know balding Brit Glyn Thomas Bailey in person after he offered to help her raise her children. But she claimed when she went to pick up at the Caribbean airport, he had no return ticket and no money. He became a celebrity on the island when she made a video and posted it to social media, begging someone to take Mr Bailey off her hands because she couldn’t afford to feed him. He is expected to be flown back to Britain in the coming days with the help of locally-based British diplomats.

Ms Peguero said she agreed to meet Mr Bailey, who is from Rhymney in south east Wales, after chatting for six-months on the internet using Google Translate.

In their chats she said he admitted he wasn’t wealthy but promised to help her raise her children, including two young daughters still living with her. She said: ‘I asked him to send me money so I could go and fetch him from the airport and he never sent me anything. I have explained it to him a thousand ways. If I had my own house I’d let him stay but I don’t.’

In a warning to other women, she added: ‘I’m making this video for many young people, for many women, so that they learn from what happened to me and don’t try to find love online.

‘That was a mistake I made and won’t make again.

She added: ‘I wasn’t looking for a man for money. We simply got to know each chatting over the Internet.

‘I prefer to be poor and happy, not rich and unhappy and I want Glyn back in Britain so people stop talking about me and criticizing me.

‘I’ve been left with a debt of £240 I borrowed to go and pick him up at Punta Cana International Airport which I haven’t asked him for because I’m going to pay it back myself however I have to.’ Wilfa’s neighbour, Kevin Osiris Mendez, among wellwishers said to have helped feed and lodge Glyn over the past few weeks in their neighbourhood where he became a local talking point, told the TV station: ‘We’ve all been worried. I’m a friend of Wilfa’s and a friend of the family and this has been a headache for us. Another local, who asked not to be named, said: ‘He seemed like a nice bloke but it’s not the time at the moment to be looking after dependents. Glyn is an adult man and the only adults you should be taking care of are your parents.’

(dailymail.co.uk)