GRUESOME FIND: The exact point where the body was discovered
SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Bangladeshi worker Sher Bahadur pointing at the site where the body was found
Thorough probe: City deputy CID chief Asst Comm Khairi Ahrasa (centre) answering questions during a press conference at the Sentul police headquarters, Kuala Lumpur, Thursday.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Wira Mohammad Sabtu Osman said the report was lodged yesterday morning at the Dang Wangi police station and police were investigating the case.
Mystery surrounds the murder of a young girl, believed to be sexually assaulted as well, whose body was found floating in a flood retention pond along Lorong Gurney, off Jalan Semarak here, on Tuesday.
Police believe she could be from outside the State, or a foreigner.
Kuala Lumpur deputy CID chief ACP Khairi Ahrasa, said police had not received any report of a missing person 24 hours before or after the body was found.
"There is no missing person report and nobody has come forward to claim the body," Khairi said.
Sentul district police chief ACP Zakaria Pagan, said: "The girl is believed to be about 12 years old and has slightly dark complexion. She could be an Indian or a Rohingya from Myanmar."
The deceased is about 4ft (122cm) tall, plump, with black hair and clad in a blue polka dot chemise with a teddy bear design.
He said the post-mortem conducted at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital yesterday revealed the girl died from strangulation with a piece of cloth around her neck.
The Malay Mail understands she had been sexually assaulted before being killed and thrown into the pond. Sentul police have issued an all-points bulletin throughout the country in an effort to trace her next-of-kin.
Sources said police would also be checking with their counterparts in other districts if there were any missing children report lodged this week or at least for the past 48 hours to assist them in identifying the victim.
Initial police investigation revealed that the girl, who is aged between 11 to 13, is believed to have been murdered and dumped into the pond 12 hours before the body was found by three Kuala Lumpur City Hall workers about 11.30am.There were no other visible injuries on the body.
According to sources, the girl was found with her top on and she could have been sexually assaulted by her murderer.Zakaria called on those who have had any of their family members missing recently to come forward and assist the police.
"We need help to identify the victim and in our investigations," he said.
He also hit out at certain medias for linking the case with two other tragic cases, saying this was "an isolated one" and had no link with the abduction and murder of Nurul Jazlin Jazimin in 2007 or that of Sharlinie Mohd Nashar last year.
"Every time there is such a case, the media likes to link it with similar cases. Let us carry out our investigations first," he said.
Those with information about the girl can contact investigation officer ASP Che Aziz Mat Isa of the Jalan Tun Razak police station at 012-9280024 or the nearest police station.
Missing girl report fit the dead corpse found in retention pond.
A woman has lodged a missing person report which fits the description of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found floating in a flood mitigation pond in Kampung Boyan, Lorong Gurney, Jalan Semarak, last Tuesday.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Wira Mohammad Sabtu Osman said the report was lodged yesterday morning at the Dang Wangi police station and police were investigating the case
He said the woman reported that her 12-year-old daughter went missing two days ago, the same day the half-naked body of a 12-year-old girl, with a piece of cloth tightened around her neck, was found floating in the pond.
"We are doing our level best to investigate and settle this case as soon as possible but I hope that people will stop speculating and making assumption that this case is related to the brutal killing of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin on Sept 16, 2007, and five-year-old Sharlinie Mohd Nashar who went missing on Jan 9, 2008," he told reporters at his office here.
The body of the girl, who was yet to be identified, was found by three Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) workers who were cleaning the pond at about 11.30am.
Two detained in connection with girl's death include women who made missing report.
A construction worker and a woman have been detained in connection with the death of a girl whose body was found floating in a flood retention pond in Kampung Boyan, Lorong Gurney, off Jalan Semarak, on Tuesday. "Her statement led police to summon the 34-year-old man, who is also her friend, to come to Sentul police station at 4pm today for investigation," he told Bernama here.
Police, however, declined to say whether the two suspects were related to the dead girl.
Both suspects will be remanded for six days from today to facilitate the investigation.
Khairi said the result of the DNA test on the girl was expected to be known in two weeks.
Earlier, Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Wira Mohammad Sabtu Osman said the 34-year-old woman had lodged a report yesterday morning that her 12-year-old daughter went missing two days ago, the same day the half-naked body of a 12-year-old girl, with a piece of cloth tightened around her neck, was found in the pond.
"We are doing our level best to complete the investigation into this case as soon as possible.
"But I hope that people will stop speculating and making assumption that this case is related to the brutal killing of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin on Sept 16, 2007, and the disappearance of five-year-old Sharlinie Mohd Nashar since Jan 9, 2008," he said.
The body of the 12-year-old girl was found by three Kuala Lumpur City Hall workers who were cleaning the pond at about 11.30am
Mom is loner claim neightbour.
THE SITE: The house where the woman lived with her child in Jalan Loke Yew
Neighbours of a woman claiming to be the mother of nine-year-old Venusha Rita, whose body was found in a retention pond in Lorong Gurney, off Jalan Semarak, on Dec 22 said she always kept to herself.
Nobody in the area knew anything about her background, even if she was single or married. A neighbour said the woman had been renting the partitioned rear portion of a house on Jalan Loke Yew for the past 15 years.
“She lived there with her mother and her older sister, besides the young girl.” The sister and mother moved to Puchong a few years ago.
“I often saw the girl playing with other children in front of the house. The last time I saw her was about a week ago,” said the neighbour.
She said she never suspected it could be the child next door when she read the news about a girl's body being found in a pond.
“I did not suspect anything amiss, not until we saw police come to the house that we heard it was related to the body found in the pond.”
The neighbour said she often heard people quarrelling in the house, and that often, there were different men in the house.
“I am not sure if she works or what she does because she rarely speaks to us.”
The 34-year-old woman was detained after she lodged a report at the Dang Wangi police station last Wednesday, a day after the body was discovered, that her daughter was missing.
She allegedly appeared to be drunk when she lodged the report.
The woman, in her report, claimed that her daughter was kidnapped by an unknown man on a motorcycle when she went out to a nearby shop with a friend on Monday.
In her report, she said the man had earlier appeared at her house in Jalan Loke Yew, asking for a glass of water.
After drinking the water, the man allegedly kidnapped the girl and sped off on his motorcycle.
The kidnapper called the next day, demanding a RM2,000 ransom, the woman claimed, adding that she paid him the money the same day at an undisclosed location in Jalan Ipoh.
He took the money and asked her to wait for 10 minutes but did not return.
She claimed he called her again on Wednesday, demanding another RM2,000 and threatening to kill the girl if the ransom was not paid.
She said in the report that her daughter had been abducted by a man who demanded RM2,000 for her release.
She claimed she paid him the money the same day at an undisclosed location in Jalan Ipoh. The man is said to have taken the money and asked her to wait for 10 minutes, but he did not return.
The woman claimed he called her again on Wednesday, demanding another RM2,000 and threatened to kill the girl if the money was not paid.
Unable to pay the ransom, she decided to seek help from the police. By then, the body had been found and the woman has since identified it as that of her daughter Venusha.
Police then detained the woman, and last Friday, arrested her 34-year-old boyfriend. Both have been remanded for a week.
The case has been classified as murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code.
Police have taken DNA samples from the suspects to ascertain if the woman is indeed Venusha’s mother.
The post-mortem report, which will show whether the girl had been raped and sodomised, is expected to be out in two weeks.
