After exactly a month since Nurin was laid to rest and two months since she first went missing, there is a glaring dearth of news on Nurin in the mass media. Everything seems so quiet and calm. Even the police are not coming up with new announcements of new arrests or new leads. |
However, today, after browsing through all the major newspapers in town, I found
this two liner news on Nurin in The Star. It says, "On the investigations into
the murder of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, Fu, who is also Kuantan MP, assured the
public that police were doing their best to solve the case. “Let the police have
more time to crack the case,” he said."
The "he" refered in the above report is Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk
Fu Ah Kiow and the two liner was actually part of a report on the award of
RM2.5mil in damages to an ex-ISA detainee under the title ‘Decision shows
independent judiciary’.
This sad development is indeed much expected as time passes, the heat cools,
henceforth the Nurin tragedy will slowly fade from people's memory, until the
next tragedy.
Personally and selfishly, the absence of news item on Nurin makes it difficult
for me who has vowed to maintain this blog until the day when the perpetrator of
Nurin's murder is convicted, or probably hanged!
Why difficult? Well, if you have been following this blog site, some 90 of
perhaps even 95% of the entries are actually extracted from newspaper reports,
so with the absence of newspaper reports on Nurin, what's there to extract from?
It looks like that now I'm really forced to brush up my writing skills to come
up with original entries in order to ensure the visitors will continue visiting
the blog and to continue talking about the tragedy and joining forces towards
creating a safer environment for our children so that there will be no Nurin No.
2, 3 and so forth.
However, though it might seem that interest on Nurin is fast fading away, there
are still people out there who have made it their mission to make Nurin lives on
in the memory of the public.
Just yesterday, the Jazimins and mine had a photo shoot session for a fairly new
magazine which will be carrying an article on the proposed Nurin Alert.
Hopefully by keep on talking about Nurin and now Nurin Alert, the public will at
least realise that the case is very much unresolved and pending where the
perpetrator(s) is/are still at large and until this happens their children are
still very much in danger of becoming the demon's next victim.
To some, seeing pictures of Jazimin (and now with the whole family, minus Nurin)
is read to carry the meaning that the family is capitalising on their new
"fame".
I remembered, sometime about two or three weeks ago, there was an article in the
Malay press that suggested that the entertainment industry was using Jazimin to
publicise themselves by having Jazimin and his daughters attending events
organised by them. In fact, strongly worded words were even registered in this
blog arguing about the gossip of Jazimin being lured to become a "singer".
Well, the fact is I have always been encouraging Jazimin to participate in any
"suitable" public events as he represents Nurin, and he will continue to do so
until justice is given to poor Nurin or until such time our place is safe from
or free of these sadistic demons.
Nurin Alert is therefore a very good initiative and I just could not wait for
the formation of its Working Committee come early November.
Good Night, let's see if there is anything I can extract from the press for my
posting tomorrow. If there is none, sorry to say but you would have to read my
original "donno what" entry again tomorrow. I hope I have not and will not bore
you.
Indonesian Woman Detained In Nurin Murder Case Freed
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 (Bernama) -- The Indonesian woman detained by police on
Sept 29 to assist in the murder investigation of Nurin Jazlin Jazmin, 8, was
today released unconditionally.
Kuala Lumpur CID Chief SAC II Ku Chin Wah said the woman was released because
police did not have adequate proof to charge her in court.
"Furthermore, the extended remand order obtained on Oct 4 to hold her ends
today.
"As she did not have valid travel documents, she has been handed over to the
Immigration Department for further action," he told Bernama here today.
The woman was detained on Sept 29 at a Ramadan bazaar in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan
and was believed to have held Nurin captive.
She was said to have sent a SMS message to Nurin's father and had also contacted
the Police's Rakan Cop hotline with her mobile phone to check on developments in
the case.
The woman made headlines after swallowing her phone SIM card while being brought
to court on Sept 29 for an initial remand order against her. The SIM card was
only retrieved six days later.
Meanwhile, an officer with the Indonesian embassy, when contacted, said it had
yet to be informed about the release of the woman.
-- BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR: The pain of having his young niece’s life viciously cut short has
spurred Jasni Abdul Jalil to come up with a “Nurin Alert” emergency response
plan.
“Talking and feeling helpless over Nurin’s death will not bring her back. But,
we can use our feelings positively and do something,” said Jasni, who is the
eldest brother of the victim’s father, Jazimin Abdul Jalil.
The plan will bring the authorities and community together to search for
abducted children in the shortest time possible after they go missing.
The plan is modelled after the successful “Amber Alert” programme in the United
States. Amber is the acronym for “America’s Missing: Broadcasting Emergency
Response”. It was named after Amber Hagerman, a nine-year-old who was abducted
and murdered in Arlington, Texas, in 1996.
Jasni, a company secretary, started the nurinjazlin.blogspot.com to help search
for eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin after she went missing on Aug 20.
The “Nurin Alert” response was mooted after a commentator referred to “Amber
Alert” in the blog.
Within weeks, several bloggers and Jasni agreed on the urgent need to introduce
a similar system here.
With the help of the like-minded bloggers, Jasni met Women, Family and Community
Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil just before Hari Raya to
discuss the proposed emergency response.
Jasni said Shahrizat asked them to forward a working paper on it.
He thanked fellow bloggers Nuraina A. Samad, Tembam and Nik Farez, who have
become the core group working on the project.
Their work is supported by Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation’s Kamal Affandi
Hashim, Protect and Save The Children director Madeline Yong and lawyer Abang
Ariffin Abang Bohan.
“We hope that Nurin Alert will eventually be realised. Nurin’s death should not
be in vain, and no child should be so cruelly tortured and killed again,” said
Jasni.
KUALA LUMPUR: The police have released enhanced CCTV footage of a man carrying a
Diadora bag and leaving it at the spot where Nurin Jazlin Jazimin’s body was
found stuffed in a bag.
In another segment of the enhanced clip, one woman (in a red dress) and three
men are seen lurking around the same area.
The CCTV footage was enhanced by the FBI’s forensics lab in Washington. The FBI
is the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice.
Police had on Sept 26 sent the CCTV footage to the FBI, which had agreed to help
enhance the clarity of the blurred images.
Post Raya Business Resumes
Both our families (the Jazimins and mine)will be heading for home tomorrow,
after a week's Raya break. Jazimin will be heading home from Selama, Perak while
mine will be leaving Penang.
This Raya will always be remembered as a Raya that has brought the families
closer together as both the near and the distant branches of the family, are
resolute with the hope for a quick and successful conviction of the sadistic
perpetrator(s) that had tortured Nurin until her death.
We also came to know that Solat Hajats were performed everywhere, during Nurin's
disappearance as well as after when she was found, though not alive. And to all
these initiatives, we wish to convey our greatest appreciation.
Everyone we met asked for absolutely one common thing, what's the latest news.
Of course, we don't really have the answer as just like all the others, we are
equally clueless.
We have not make it a habit to call on the police every now and then asking for
updates as we are quite certain that the police are indeed pursuing the
investigation dutifully and hopefully with much progresses though not much of it
are disclosed to the public.
Hopefully, next week we will hear :-
1. THAT the motorcyclist has been identified and arrested;
2. THAT the arrest of the motorcyclist has led the Police for the arrest of the
sadistic killer, assuming that the motorcyclist was merely the transporter; and
3. THAT the Police have completed their investigation on finding the culprit who
took and disseminated the autopsy pictures.
All these are hopes, but definitely not really high hopes, as these are really
no more than merely natural hopes.
Meanwhile, talking of people capitalising on one's misery, we have just also
learnt that there is already at least a "story" book on the tragedy befalling
Nurin selling for RM2.50 at sidewalk's book stalls. Though we are yet to get
hold of one, we are quite sure that we will be able to get a copy of it very
soon.
Since we're yet to get hold of any of the books, it is therefore quite premature
for us to state our position on the matter.
On the positive front, Nurin Alert will be getting another boost as an article
on the subject will be carried by a national daily within the next few days.
Hopefully, with its exposure to the public beyond the blog sphere, more public
support on it will be garnered. With greater public support, the journey of
Nurin Alert from ideals to reality would be faster and easier.
Thank you for keeping on visiting the blog during the past week and sorry for
the one week silence. The silent mode was merely due to my limited internet
access while on holidays here.
I don't know whether at this point in time following the brutal murder of eight
year-old Nurin Jazlin, there is any effort to discuss measures to save abducted
children, or even plans to provide safety guidelines for parents and children.
Let's stop the rhetorics and tiresome statements that are playing like an old
record, that we have heard over and over again. Tell us something we don't know.
Tell us something new.
Again...stop criminalising parents for negligence. I cannot agree more with NST
columnist Johan Jaafar here. We keep doing that and we will get nowhere near
finding a long-term solution to helping kids like Nurin in the future.
I think the relevant agencies should start working to educate society and to
create awareness on safety for our children. They should get assistance from
professionals and experts in this area.
We claim to be no longer a Third World country, then, we should start having a
progressive mindset in dealing with this problem. We can always look to
successful models and programmes in other countries.
Our blog sister, Farina of Princessjournals who mentioned Amber Alert when
commenting about Nurin's abduction and murder in my earlier posting, came out
with her own list (of do's and don'ts), inspired, I am sure, by her current
American experience.(Ahirudin Attan (Rocky's Bru) has suggested that a Malaysian
Amber Alert be called Nurin Alert, in memory of Nurin. )
See Farina's suggestions at http://princessjournals.blogspot.com/2007/09/arwah-nurin-and-amber-alert.html
The guidelines are taught to families in the US. For (some of) them to be
followed here in Malaysia, a mindset change is needed, which is absolutely not
impossible.
But it has to start with education and awareness on why these are necessary --
for the safety of our children and to prevent another Nurin tragedy.
We cannot let Nurin's tragic end remain just a memory that will dissipate and
disappear with time. She did not die in vain, for us to forget that it may
happen again, as I know it surely will. Should we continue with our lives as
though everything is back to normal and hunky-dory and, yeah, yeah, life goes
on?
I am strongly for Amber Alert, as is another blogger, Tembam, a former
journalist who visited my posting on Nurin and the relevance of Amber Alert.
Tembam who supported the need for an Amber Alert in this country, has been
posting about Nurin and the Nurin-after situation with passion, vigour and a
little bit of anger. Thank you, Tembam.
If we had an Amber Alert already in place, let me tell you, those murderers
would not have got away with what they did to Nurin.
Amber stands for America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response. But it is also
the name of the child who was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Arlington,
Texas in 1996. The tragedy of nine year-old Amber Hagerman shocked America and
caused public outrage. Amber Alert came into being. The concept has been
embraced by all segments of society and has saved the livesof hundreds of
children.
Here is what it's about:
The Amber Alert is a critical missing child response program that utilizes the
resources of law enforcement and media to notify the public when children are
kidnapped by predators. Although the scope of the Amber Alert varies, the
criteria for activation are fairly consistent. Whether it is a local, regional
or statewide program, law enforcement activates an Amber Alert by notifying
broadcast media with relevant identifying and case information when
circumstances meets the following criteria:
1. The missing child is of a pre-determined age;
2. The law enforcement agency believes the child has been kidnapped;
3. The agency believes the missing child is under threat of serious bodily harm
or death.
Once they receive the Amber Alert radio and television stations interrupt
regularly scheduled programming to notify the public that a child has been
kidnapped. Because 95% of all people driving in their cars listen to the radio,
this is an extremely effective way of providing descriptions of the child, the
kidnapper, vehicles or accomplices.
Besides turning the public into instant investigators when children are
kidnapped, benefits of the Amber Alert include:
1. It is free;
2. It encourages participation between natural adversaries, law enforcement and
media by drawing on their inherent strengths;
3. It promotes accountability by creating the foundation of a comprehensive
missing child protocol;
4. It is an effective time critical response to kidnappers who can disappear
with children at the rate of a mile per minute;
5. It sends a powerful message to wanna-be kidnappers that this is a community
that cares about and protects children;
6. It saves lives.
When an Amber Alert is issued, the broadcast media goes into full swing,
informing listeners and viewers of the kidnapped child's name and useful details
such as how she looks like, what she was wearing the last time she was seen, and
with whom and where or whether she was in a vehicle. Besides this, electronic
billboards are used to flash the kidnapped child's name of picture and also the
relevant details.
People are kept alert and will be on a look-out.
It must be remembered that when a child is abducted, it is always done with
sinister design. Having such a system is about saving the child's life before it
is too late by forcing the perpetrator to release him/her before he sets out on
his torturous binge.
I am certain, with will and commitment, it can work here. What do you think?
I don't know whether at this point in time following the brutal murder of eight
year-old Nurin Jazlin, there is any effort to discuss measures to save abducted
children, or even plans to provide safety guidelines for parents and children.
Let's stop the rhetorics and tiresome statements that are playing like an old
record, that we have heard over and over again. Tell us something we don't know.
Tell us something new.
Again...stop criminalising parents for negligence. I cannot agree more with NST
columnist Johan Jaafar here. We keep doing that and we will get nowhere near
finding a long-term solution to helping kids like Nurin in the future.
I think the relevant agencies should start working to educate society and to
create awareness on safety for our children. They should get assistance from
professionals and experts in this area.
We claim to be no longer a Third World country, then, we should start having a
progressive mindset in dealing with this problem. We can always look to
successful models and programmes in other countries.
Our blog sister, Farina of Princessjournals who mentioned Amber Alert when
commenting about Nurin's abduction and murder in my earlier posting, came out
with her own list (of do's and don'ts), inspired, I am sure, by her current
American experience.(Ahirudin Attan (Rocky's Bru) has suggested that a Malaysian
Amber Alert be called Nurin Alert, in memory of Nurin. )
See Farina's suggestions at http://princessjournals.blogspot.com/2007/09/arwah-nurin-and-amber-alert.html
The guidelines are taught to families in the US. For (some of) them to be
followed here in Malaysia, a mindset change is needed, which is absolutely not
impossible.
But it has to start with education and awareness on why these are necessary --
for the safety of our children and to prevent another Nurin tragedy.
We cannot let Nurin's tragic end remain just a memory that will dissipate and
disappear with time. She did not die in vain, for us to forget that it may
happen again, as I know it surely will. Should we continue with our lives as
though everything is back to normal and hunky-dory and, yeah, yeah, life goes
on?
I am strongly for Amber Alert, as is another blogger, Tembam, a former
journalist who visited my posting on Nurin and the relevance of Amber Alert.
Tembam who supported the need for an Amber Alert in this country, has been
posting about Nurin and the Nurin-after situation with passion, vigour and a
little bit of anger. Thank you, Tembam.
If we had an Amber Alert already in place, let me tell you, those murderers
would not have got away with what they did to Nurin.
Amber stands for America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response. But it is also
the name of the child who was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Arlington,
Texas in 1996. The tragedy of nine year-old Amber Hagerman shocked America and
caused public outrage. Amber Alert came into being. The concept has been
embraced by all segments of society and has saved the livesof hundreds of
children.
Here is what it's about:
The Amber Alert is a critical missing child response program that utilizes the
resources of law enforcement and media to notify the public when children are
kidnapped by predators. Although the scope of the Amber Alert varies, the
criteria for activation are fairly consistent. Whether it is a local, regional
or statewide program, law enforcement activates an Amber Alert by notifying
broadcast media with relevant identifying and case information when
circumstances meets the following criteria:
1. The missing child is of a pre-determined age;
2. The law enforcement agency believes the child has been kidnapped;
3. The agency believes the missing child is under threat of serious bodily harm
or death.
Once they receive the Amber Alert radio and television stations interrupt
regularly scheduled programming to notify the public that a child has been
kidnapped. Because 95% of all people driving in their cars listen to the radio,
this is an extremely effective way of providing descriptions of the child, the
kidnapper, vehicles or accomplices.
Besides turning the public into instant investigators when children are
kidnapped, benefits of the Amber Alert include:
1. It is free;
2. It encourages participation between natural adversaries, law enforcement and
media by drawing on their inherent strengths;
3. It promotes accountability by creating the foundation of a comprehensive
missing child protocol;
4. It is an effective time critical response to kidnappers who can disappear
with children at the rate of a mile per minute;
5. It sends a powerful message to wanna-be kidnappers that this is a community
that cares about and protects children;
6. It saves lives.
When an Amber Alert is issued, the broadcast media goes into full swing,
informing listeners and viewers of the kidnapped child's name and useful details
such as how she looks like, what she was wearing the last time she was seen, and
with whom and where or whether she was in a vehicle. Besides this, electronic
billboards are used to flash the kidnapped child's name of picture and also the
relevant details.
People are kept alert and will be on a look-out.
It must be remembered that when a child is abducted, it is always done with
sinister design. Having such a system is about saving the child's life before it
is too late by forcing the perpetrator to release him/her before he sets out on
his torturous binge.
I am certain, with will and commitment, it can work here. What do you think?
Stern Police Warning As Pictures Of Murdered Nurin Posted Online - Jazimin
lodged a Police Report
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 (Bernama) -- As news broke out Tuesday that autopsy pictures
of murdered eight-year-old girl Nurin Jazlin Jazimin were posted on the
Internet, police warned that stern action would be taken against anyone
distributing such pictures.
Selangor Chief Police Officer Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar, who was not amused by this
latest twist in the bizarre murder, told Bernama: " I've seen the pictures
posted via emails and have lodged a report.
"Investigations are underway under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) and I warn
those distributing such photographs to stop doing it or risk being prosecuted
under the OSA or in possession of pornographic materials," he said.
" I'm directing this warning particularly to my own men (police) as they were
the ones who had direct access to these photographs and those who are now in
possession of such photographs," Khalid said.
Nurin was reported missing on August 20 after she had gone alone to a night
market near her home in Wangsa Maju here.
On September 17, her nude body was found stuffed into a sports bag that was left
in front of a shoplot in Petaling Jaya. A post-mortem revealed that she was
sexually assaulted, with a brinjal and cucumber inserted into her private parts.
Police picked up five people, including a woman, in connection with the murder
10 days after the discovery of the body but only the woman is still under
remand.
The four men were released four days later as DNA tests carried out on them did
not match the foreign material found on Nurin's body.
Describing the distribution of the photographs as a despicable act, Khalid said
others might also be in possession of such material.
Asked how many photographs could have been distributed on-line, he said: "There
were many, more or less the whole set of photographs."
--BERNAMA
In the meantime, Jazimin accompanied by his brothers and his legal adviser also
lodged a police report later today at the Jalan Bandar (Dang Wangi) Police
Station.
In his report he expressed his dismay and disbelieve that such photographs which
are supposed to be in the hands of the authorities for the yet to be solved case
could be easily and unlawfully circulated to the public without regards to the
feelings and dignity of the victim's family.
He asked the police find and stop the source of the circulation as it is feared
that such act would interfere in the investigation on his daughter's murder
case.
Asked by reporters outside the Police Station on what would be his next action,
he told them that he was leaving it to his counsel Messrs. Shafee & Co to deal
with the matter. A ststement on the matter shall be made by the counsel right
after Hari Raya. Messrs. Shafee & Co will also be acting as the watching brief
for the family once the trial commences
Many parents just don’t care
Taking a cue from the various great comments and suggestions from the visitors
of the blog, I find the following letter by a Concerned Parent published in Star
Online today worth highlighting.
Indeed the observation of the Concerned Parent is real, there seem to be this
attitude among some parents that whatever happened to Nurin would not and never
happen to their child. How wrong can they be? Some lesson must and should be
learnt to avoid the repetition of the tragedy.
While we work on a suitable Alert mechanism, attitude must change as well. I
guess this has to be tackled via education both to the children as well as to
the parents.
Well readers, read on and let us have your say :-
WITH the recent tragic deaths of young innocent lives, it is enlightening and a
relief to know that we are taking positive steps to ensure that our world is a
safer place for our children.
The blogs, the surveillance teams set up for the Nurin case and alike provide
adequate evidence that Malaysians are indeed a caring society. Yes we do show
care when tragic befalls our neighbour’s children.
But what about caring for our children? Many a time I find children roaming on
the streets by themselves. During the Raya break, I decided to take my son for a
car ride.
I spotted a group of boys between the ages of eight to 10 loitering in some
housing estate. I wondered what their parents were doing.
On our way back home, I saw a girl of about six years walking all alone on the
busy street. I again wondered whether her parents had read enough about what
happens to young girls if they are left unsupervised in this big bad world.
As much as the Government is trying its best to nail down child predators,
parents should be accountable for children. This lack of attention from parents
is indeed an issue to be reckoned with.
The parents of these children should be questioned and if need be investigated
by welfare officers.
Four Suspects In The Killing Of Nurin Released
PETALING JAYA, Oct 1 (Bernama) -- Four suspects who were detained by police on
Friday to assist in the Nurin Jazlin Jazimin murder probe were released on
police bail today.
A police spokesman said they were released at 4.56pm as police did not have
strong evidence to charge them.
In fact the DNA test carried out on them did not match the foreign material
found on Nurin's body, he told reporters at the Petaling Jaya Police
Headquarters, here today.
The four men, aged between 27 and 33, were detained during a raid at a shophouse
in Section 7, Shah Alam in connection with the murder of Nurin Jazlin.
A woman who was also detained together with them had been released after her
statement was recorded.
An Indonesian woman was also detained at a Ramadan Bazaar in Nilai, Negeri
Sembilan at midnight on Friday to assist in the police investigation.
Nurin Jazlin, a Year Two pupil of Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Desa Setapak, was
reported missing on Aug 20 after going out alone to the night market near her
house.
On Sept 17, her body was found in a sports bag left at a shop in Petaling Jaya.
-- BERNAMA
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