Sick Mind

I don't know if this news has been given extensive coverage overseas, but it certainly has here. I imagine it has been overshadowed in the World News by politics and the case of the Chinese girl left at Southern Cross Station in Melbourne.

An 8 y.o. Malay girl went missing on August 20, purportedly dragged screaming into a van. A nationwide 'missing persons' campaign was launched, with banners put up everywhere, and flyers with her picture being circulated. On Monday this week, about 4 weeks after she went missing, her body was found in a sports bag. A post-mortem done on her body revealed that she had been sexually assaulted (news link), and that it had caused her rectum to rupture, get infected, and this may have been the cause of her death. Her parents did not even recognise her when called in to identify the body. The only way of confirming her identity was dental records and DNA testing.

As parents, you would never hope for your child to no longer be alive, and this girl's parents could not believe that the body they were looking at was that of their daughter's. They could not recognise her, claiming she looked only "50%" like the little girl they knew. Unfortunately for them, there were medical explanations for the changes in her appearance. They have now accepted the results of the DNA test and dental matching, and have lain her to rest.

It is such a sad event to have happened, to the family, and also to the girl to have endured what she did in the final month of her life. What sick mind could have done such a thing to an innocent child? Why didn't anyone try to stop the kidnapper? May Nurin rest in peace now that her ordeal is over.