2007 07: Police form 40-man task force to nab child abductors

NST online. Local News. 5/7/07

By : V. Shuman

KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs:
City police have formed a massive 40-man task force in a move that signals their intent on catching two men responsible for separate abductions of two young girls in the Kampung Baru area over the past week.

City police chief DCP Zulhasnan Najib Baharudin said the task force comprised personnel from the city police headquarters and the Dang Wangi police headquarters.

Although Zulhasnan would not elaborate, it is understood the task force has already begun in earnest tracking the culprits behind the abductions.

In the second incident on Monday, a 5-year-old girl was taken by a motorcyclist at 3.30pm while playing in front of her father’s grocery store in Jalan Raja Bot.

The girl’s playmate told her father that the man was wearing a black helmet and jacket and had convinced the girl to follow him on the pretext of looking for his missing cat.

She was found by a passer-by at 6am on Tuesday in Kampung Baru, covered in bruises and with blood on her legs.

Yesterday, the girl was taken for a medical check-up at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital by her father, but he was told to return for another check-up on another day.

Police are waiting for the results of the check-up to see if the girl had been sexually assaulted.

In the earlier case last Wednesday, a 6-year-old girl was persuaded by a stranger to follow him to catch cats.

The man took the child to a house where he allegedly forced a brinjal into her private parts.

She was found by her mother six hours later wandering near Jalan Daud, with bloodstains on her uniform, 100m from the kindergarten where she was abducted.

Police believe the cases are not related, although there are similarities in both cases.