Friday, December 07, 2007

Taking Nurin Alert To The Next Level


I would like to extend my most heartfelt condolence to the families of 12-year-old Chin Kha Man who was found dead in a stream a few miles from Gopeng and nine-year-old Preeshena Vashiny who was found dead in the most gruesome manner. I am still not sure of the details of both cases as there has been no reports (See The Star article in earlier post here) of her on TV last night and this morning. My heart aches and the anger is just waiting to errupt but for this article in Berita Harian below. Thank you Berita Harian and Siti Nur Almizan Aripin for understanding the issue at hand. Bernama’s reporter was also at that press conference but did not even mention the Nurin Alert in their report here. The New Straits Times conceded here with a mention: “One of the proposals in the policy is changes to the “24-hour” procedure to lodge a police report when a child goes missing. Shahrizat said when a child goes missing, 24 hours is a long time to wait to lodge a police report and officially begin the search.”
Now I am tearing my hair out thinking that with the Nurin Alert, the entire community could have helped the Police and her parents find Kha Man alive. Why, why, why, why did this have to happen to another innocent child??? I am sure the autopsy report will reveal worse details. This morning on RTM 1, it was reported that in the Tamil newspaper there is a case of a nine-year-old girl whose body was found in the drain having fallen from a condo. It had been initially thought that she had fallen by accident but the autopsy revealed that she had been raped, sodomised and brutally assaulted and that her body had been flung over the balcony to certain death below. Even the kind hearted newsreader said he did not have the heart to read out the details of her injuries. Please read the gruesome report in the New Straits Times here.
“Preeshena Varshiny, 9, was believed to have been raped, sodomised and thrown down from the balcony of one of the units at the up-market Casa Mila Tower Condominium in Jalan Bukit Idaman 3/1, Selayang, on Thursday. Her body was found sprawled on the ground by a security guard about 4pm on Thursday. She was clad in a blue T-shirt and shorts and the keys to her condominium were found next to her body.
Her father who is a marketing and technical manager and her mother, who works in a human resource department, suspect that Preeshena was abducted from their unit on the ninth floor. Her 40-year-old father, who declined to be named, said his daughter called him on Wednesday afternoon claiming someone was knocking loudly on the front door.Preeshena was alone at home. Her elder brother was away at a boarding school while her younger sister was sent to a baby-sitter.
“I told her not to open the door. I reminded her that we have the keys to the unit and we would open and let ourselves in after work,” he told the New Straits Times at his condo last night. Her father’s nightmare came true on Thursday afternoon when he got a call from police. He rushed to the condominium and saw his daughter’s broken body. The parents suspect that Preeshena was forcibly taken when she opened the door to the assailant on Thursday.”
Was this another missing child? Had her case been reported to the police? My instincts tell me it could be a copycat crime as the vicious killer was confident that the police would not be able to trace him/them despite leaving her body behind. More mockery of the police? Grave warnings to the rest of the terrified parents? Please, Tuan IGP prove me wrong because if this is true, I fear for the children of Malaysia. With the UMNO General Assembly coming up you can forget about getting editorial space. Are our nation’s children of no consequence to the politicians and the police? Please someone tell me this is not so!

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