Is it the Malaysian Police or is it the Media that is not reporting cases of attempted abductions of children with the same seriousness as it warrants. If you watch the videoclip of an attempted abduction of a three-year-old boy in Brisbane, Queensland Australia you will begin to wonder if many more such attempts have occured in Malaysia than has been reported. Did the attempted abduction of Haziq as reported earlier here by a man in a white van get reported in our TV? Did our local Police take the case as seriously as they should have. Just look at what the Australian media did in a recent case of attempted abduction. And you know what? They caught the guy. Are we not taking these child abduction attempt cases as seriously as we should?
Also read how other media reports on attempted abductions in US and Australia. One thing is for sure, the police there don’t treat these cases lightly. I hope our Royal Malaysian Police is giving serious attention to child abduction attempts. But then again if they don’t even treat reports of missing children as seriously as they should, why am I getting very nervous? Please Tuan IGP, no more Nurins!
Police investigate attempted abduction of teen
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Gold Coast police are investigating the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old girl at Nerang, in south-east Queensland, yesterday. Police say the girl was walking to work along Mortensen Road just before 4:30pm AEST when a man driving a black sedan pulled over and asked if the teenager wanted a lift. The girl refused and the man then lunged and tried to grab her hand. He is described as being in his late 20s or early 30s, of Caucasian appearance, with dark short curly hair and a medium build. He was wearing a light coloured T-shirt.
Man to face court over attempted abduction
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A 24-year-old Gold Coast man has been charged over the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old girl at Nerang on Monday afternoon. The Labrador man has been charged with stalking and common assault. He has also been charged over an alleged incident involving a 12-year-old girl in Ashmore in May and alleged incidents with three other women. He is due to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court tomorrow on 10 charges.
Police call for witnesses to girl’s attempted adduction
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Police investigating the attempted abduction of a nine-year-old girl in far north Queensland are appealing for a witness to come forward. The girl was at the Yungaburra markets south-west of Cairns yesterday, when a man took her hand and led her towards a dark-coloured sedan parked near market stalls. The girl ran from the man who got into his car and drove off towards Atherton. Police say a woman called “Marie” witnessed the incident and may have information which could help investigators. The man is described as 178 centimetres tall, with short, dark, greying hair and has a tattoo of a sword or a cross on his right arm near the elbow.
Attempted Child Abduction at Bus Stop in Parma
Thursday, 01 Nov 2007
PARMA, Ohio — Police are looking for a masked driver who tried to lure a 12-year-old boy into his car at a bus stop Thursday morning. Detective Martin Compton tells Fox 8 News the boy was waiting at a bus stop at 7 a.m. at the intersection of Antoinette and Night Vista when he was approached by a white male driving a Saturn wagon.Fox 8 News reporter Belinda Prinz spoke with the boy’s parents, who asked not to have their names released.
The parents described to Prinz exactly what happened Thursday morning. It was still dark in the neighborhood as their 12-year-old middle school student encountered a masked man with an ominous message. The boy’s father explained, “Somebody got out of a car and told him to get in the car. And he ran home like he should, immediately came home and let us know.” The boy described the mask as a ninja or bank robber mask. His mother thought it might have been a ski mask. “He was literally shaking and upset. And he couldn’t speak sentences. I mean, I was trying to get out of him sentences,” said the boy’s mother
After their son told them hysterically what happened, the couple jumped into their car and actually spotted the man parked in a small white station wagon, stopped on Antoinette. He did not have a mask on at that point, but was wearing a hooded jacket with the hood pulled up. “He had his lights on, his interior light was on, just as he described when he came home. We drove by, went around the corner trying to decide what to do, called the police to give a report,” the boy’s father explained. “When we drove back around, probably within two or three minutes, he had driven by.”
Parma police assigned Detective Compton to follow up on the case. Police say the boy did the right thing, running from the man and promptly telling his parents. Compton says the police department takes any case of child enticement seriously. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a prank or not, we’re going to take this seriously. And if in fact we find out who did it, they’re going to be brought to justice,” said Compton.
If you have any information, you are asked to contact Parma Police — (440)887-7300.
itulahnya tembam yg buat i geram sgt ni. iv yet to hear any tv station buat emergency alert when a child goes missing. (i knolah im not in msia but kalau ada keluar tv im sure ppl wud blog abt it, kan?) setakat keluar newspaper aje not enuf sbb its not current. sepatutnya bila police dpt report tu, terus inform all the tv stations and if they dont make the announcement, sue them! too extreme? who cares as long as they get the message. if tv stations dont take them seriously, whts the point of having nurin alert then?
Good morning Farina! Memang I pun makin lama makin geram as I find out that our media is not taking a serious view on this. That report in the Australian media would have been ignored by our media. They want to report the gruesome aftermath. No dead bodies, no story!
I started in the media rather late in life, after having worked in other careers, because I thought being a journalist meant you could make a difference. My trainers included Razman Abdullah and Mary Chandapillai. Even Pak Non (Zainon Ahmad), Datuk Kadir, Encik Mat (Datuk Ahmad Talib) and many others made time to come and tell us trainee cub reporters all about what it means to be a journalist. This was during our Pre-Editorial Training Scheme (PETS).
Among the lessons they taught me was that the media had a duty to “Inform, Educate and Entertain” and that we were the public watchdogs, the conscience of the community and the eyes and ears of society. No doubt we were never entirely independent (No media is by the way! Also, I don’t care much for the political stand taken by NST during the time I was working there), the NST back then practised what was termed self-censorship only on sensitive issues such as race and religion. But the media has lost it somewhere.
Do you get the feeling the local media, especially TV, is more into entertainment than carrying out their duty as public watchdog? I suppose the bottom line is always the profit margin. Gone are the days when the media fought for important things like independence from colonial masters.
If the media is a public watchdog, why are they not being pro-active about reports of missing children and attempted abductions? By reporting after the fact they are merely treating the symptoms and not curing the disease itself.
Deliberately misquoting Shakespeare, I venture that there is something rotten in the state of the Media.
Hey Tembam ! Hikhik..mekaseh sudi melawat blog sy..
Ya AGREE ! mmg x nampak sgt keseriusan pihak2 neh wat emergency alert bile jadi hal2 cmni..nk kate diorang x alert mmg x logik la kn..spatutnye diorang yg alert kn org lain tntang hal ni..
“No dead bodies, no story!”? haha..then it should be at least ONE dead body la to create story kn..kalo xde nnti buntu xtau nk wat cite pe..
tembam, another child has gone missing – see rocky’s.
geram about the lack of action? am seething.
Hi Tembam,
Just a short note to say thank you for including OBE on Nurin Alert.
I was rather late coming into this issue, preferring instead, to sit back and watch how things panned out. Besides, the uber bloggers were already on the pulse.
In time, the MSM moved on to other ‘hot’ issues until I saw YY’s article on 1/11/07 and since I know him personally, it was reassuring to know that someone in the MSM consider Nurin still matters.
I’ve updated my posting at OBE in light of the latest development i.e. the person and/or persons involved with the autopsy photos has been identified by the RMP. And there’s a clincher at the end.
Wassalam.
Hi apisz, betul kata you tu bro. Nak kata tak pandai, sumer pepandai belaka. Skrg semua ada ijazah dan pengalaman luar negeri yg terror and mengancam tau. Jgn tak tau! Tapi yg sebenarnya I rasa they all dah lupa arah tujuan. I was expecting them to inform us, the public. Kalau NST dulu, kita bantai polis for their inaction. Kita keluar story pasal how other countries do it. Kita gegar politicians to do something about it. Ini senyap menikus. Apsal ek? I pun tak tahu.
Apisz, you dgn kengkawan semua adalah harapan bangsa. Blogging memberi kita satu saluran lain untuk meluahkan pendapat. Gunakan sebaik mungkin dan do it for the good of one and all, okay bro. Blog on!
Kak Teh, thanks for alerting me about Kha Man. I don’t understand why it’s not been reported by the media. It’s because we don’t have a proper system to do this. We need the Nurin Alert fast!
Somehow I had an uneasy feeling all day and had to check my blog. Thanks to Rocky for keeping us clued in. Kak Teh, we will fight on for the Nurin Alert! Take care!
Hi shar101! You are welcome. Glad you blogged about it. On that clincher, hmmmm…you think they would make an public apology? Please lah bro, I have to tabik you for this if it ever happens. The police only melenting when anything affects one of their own.
Our PM expresses public outrage only when policemen get killed. What of a sweet little eight-year-old girl whose father has to drive a taxi so he can take her to the hospital for frequent checkups on her kidney and high blood pressure condition? Jazimin tu siapa?
By the way bro, it’s better to be late than never ya? Looks like with our police, a public apology may be a never.
memang tv station kita tak boleh diharap yet. as u said it urself, theyd rather air the gruesome stories and pic rather than trying to PREVENT them from happening. berapa kali they repeat the story of late Nurin AFTER the body was found? and how many times did they air the missing child story? hopeless buggers!
I agree Farina. Now with all the UMNO GA going on lagi lah penuh berita tentang you know what. I’m not sure what is going on with our TV and Radio. We get loads of airtime on Erra Fazira and Siti Nurhaliza’s love lives and weddings and what nots like it was to die for. But when it comes to missing children, they never even aired the story about Kha Man and Preeshena. I wonder what’s going on.
[...] This video above reports on how one school stepped up police patrol after a young girl fought off a would be kidnapper and another showing Baltimore County police investigating an attempted kidnapping after a man allegedly tried to grab a 12-year-old girl as she walked to her school bus stop. Police need to take a serious view of abduction attempts as I had blogged about earlier here. [...]
Tapi bukankah tindakkan pihak polis serta media meng-update through mass media tentang apa yang akan mereka lakukan(melakukan pemeriksaan rumah ke rumah,kemudian beralih ke sekitar ladang dll),seumpama memberitahu penjenayah…”Assalammualaikum,kami datang ni..cepat-cepatlah lari!!!