Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Gym Bag Girl

Who could muster enough courage to bring his or herself to pick up this morning's New Straits Times?

The picture of the young girl who was brutally abused and murdered is plastered on the front page, and knowing that the perpetrator had done crazy things to her and ended it by stuffing her in a gym bag left in front of a store, that's just too much.

So far, no one's claiming her as kin just yet. The press event ventured a question, "Was she homeless?"

Dubbed by the press as "Girl in the Gym Bag", police suspects the case may be serial and linked to the "Kampung Baru Molester". However I wondered why criminologist Dr Kamal Affendi Hashim refers to the culprit as a "he".

I hope police is not ruling out women in their search list. Remember that case in which a mother had beaten her own child to death and tried to put the blame on her step-son?

The identity of the girl is still unknown, but I think we all know she in a better place now.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for your interest in the matter.
There are a lot of space needed for me to answer to your quiry.
In short, i am not comtemplating that it may not be a woman nor a couple. But, the referrence given was more towards using 'he' as a noun i.e.

Man's best friend.

Its a figure of speech rather.Thank you again.

kamal fnd hashim

siti rosman said...

Hullo Dr!
Ya, had hoped that was just it.

Actually i read a couple of Malay-based publications and they incorporated in your comments words like "Lelaki itu.." and "Lelaki yang dipercayai terbabit.." instead of "Suspek" or "Orang" - that's when I got a bit curious. But then again, the publications are not ones that have been around for some time like BH or Utusan.

Thanks for coming by the blog doc!

p/s: Wonder how you found your way to this nook?

kamal fnd hashim said...

how i came about yours?kacang,i moves about!(hint:i key-ed in my name and read all the things people said about me some time..wink..wink)

siti rosman said...

aha.. you're the happy googler. thanks for taking time to respond. i'll swing by your blog soon.