Teenager Rhiana Moore, who was found dead on Saturday morning, was remembered last night by her former Principal as a shy girl who was a role model for her middle school.

The 14-year-old, who was a devoted member of the Radnor Road Christian Fellowship in Shelly Bay, attended a youth group there on Friday evening.

On Saturday, her dead body was found in the mangroves of Blue Hole Hill nature reserve in Hamilton Parish around 11 a.m. by two kayakers and passersby.

Ze Menefeskiduse Selassie, of Battery Road, St. George's Parish was arrested later that day. He was charged in Magistrates' Court yesterday with the premeditated murder of the 14-year-old on or about Friday, May 30.

Last night Freddie Evans, principal of Whitney Institute, where Rhiana spent her entire middle school career, said the school was rallying together to try to support each other in their loss.

He said: "We are grouped by ages so a lot of the current students may have seen her, but not have known her. The teachers, though, all of whom had the privilege of teaching her, were distraught.

"It was a warm assembly on Monday. We had two guidance counsellors helping teachers and students. The current M3's all went to them.

"They were all really touched and, due to the circumstances, very concerned. We had the gambit from shock, distress and fear."

Speaking for himself personally he said: "She, like most students in middle school years, came in little but left as a young adult.

"She was very shy. Every day she was here she modelled the motto of Whitney — respect, responsibility and resiliency.

"We call our teachers and students a family; Rhiana took that to heart. She never had a tardy (was late) and the only absence she had was when she was sick which was not often.

"She was one of our prefects because she was a role model. Aysha DeSilva was on of her best friends and she and Aysha were inseparable — walking together and talking together.

"One thing I reflected on that has taught me so much about Rhiana is that whenever I saw her mother, and it was almost consistently, she would thank me for Rhiana's time at Whitney.

"In the normal day of life and work you appreciate the thanks, but you take seeing people for granted because you think you have so much time to go."

Rhiana lived with her mother Julieann and 10-year-old sister Khara in Devonshire, while her father Rohan, who is a former Bermuda Police officer and from Barbados, was just a call or text away from his daughter.

Mr. Moore arrived on the Island on Tuesday night to be with his family.

Rhiana, who was Mr. Moore's first-born, had been an S1 student at CedarBridge Academy for the last year of her life.

Last night, two of Rhiana's friends from her advisory group, Kadijah Burrows and Ann-tene Oldfield, said it had been great hearing from Rhiana's mother on Monday when she came to CedarBridge to speak to them.

Kadijah said she remembered the constant struggle to get into their advisory group earlier then the ever-punctual, Rhiana. On Thursday, last week, she finally succeeded.

She said: "I got dismissed early from my other class so I got to advisory before Rhiana. When she saw me sitting there she just laughed 'cause she had always been there before me.

"It was the first time she spoke to me first."

Ann-tene was in the last class Rhiana would ever take — English — last Friday afternoon and remembers hugging her before never seeing her again.

She said: "I had her last class, English. She was just so happy. You didn't think anything bad was going to happen. I hugged her before I left class."