“Most of high-risk offenders are opportunistic, hence they are categorized as such. Child-snatchers usually fall under this. There’s nothing supernatural or spectacular the way they act – it’s all a matter of instinctive thought processing and their desire to commit that heinous crime.”

As a society, I wonder why we keep falling back on this supernatural stuff? It seems to explain away all sorts of things, no need to fight back, after all how do you finght the unseen?

Now I remember, I had written a long stiry about bomoh’s and their misleading advertising that can sometimes prove fatal. There was this lady who believed in the bomoh that when she was diagnosed with cancer she refused a mastectomy for fear of losing her husband or some such thing. She endured great pain when the cancer spread and started oozing puss and what have you. In the end she died and naturally, the husband remarried. If the bomoh had been a true spiritual healer, he should have advised her that he could not cure her and sent her to the hospital. Instead he fed her false hopes and she died young, leaving several motherless children who, unlike their dad, can never find her replacement.

I wish they won’t encourage all these khurafats and syirik practices through those awful dramas but hey, how are we going to show the world that we also have Bomoh Boleh right, like those dramas Charmed, supernatural and whatnots? I am being sarcastic here but those “orang minyaks” and “orang bunians” sure get away with bloody murder and worse if nobody takes them as serious serials criminals. We have a long way to go yet despite conquering the cosmos.

Munira, as a drop ut scientist who regrets not having been able to ride the crest of biotechnology, I would have looked forward to Sheikh Muszaphars flight to the space station. Unfortunately, knowing how difficult it was to continue research with the most basic equipment and facilities missing even in the once premier university where I taught as an academic, I wish the government had focused on a proper space programme like China did so that more than just one man would make it into space. As it is, we launched one man to float in space while the rest of the country remain suspended in the virtual reality created by bomohs.

By the way, if previous history repeats itself, bomohs are sure to make a killing with the upcoming general elections, in terms of a monetary windfall that is?

ASH-HADU A(N)L-LAILAHA IL-LAL-LAHU WA ASH-HADU AN-NA MUHAMM-MADAN’ABDUHU WA RASULUH.
(I bear testimony that none is worthy of worship but Allah, and I testify that Muhammad is the servant and Messenger of Allah.)

One other thing, we need to put ourselves in the perp’s perspective not ours. Not all criminals are interested to follow the news, so it’s either he is aware there is a nationwide media coverage or he’s not. Generally, it’s been known that an obsessive/organized offender is very much interested in being spotlighted in the media and some have been known to visit their crime scene because either they enjoy the risk of being caught or they like to recapture the previous high they achieved during that event.

Most of high-risk offenders are opportunistic, hence they are categorized as such. Child-snatchers usually fall under this. There’s nothing supernatural or spectacular the way they act – it’s all a matter of instinctive thought processing and their desire to commit that heinous crime.

Actually, if you think about it, remember the legend of “orang minyak”? Let’s ignore the supernatural aspect of it and focus on the “orang minyak” himself. I would say that the urban legend is probably stemmed from the man’s deviant behaviour – he is definitely a serial rapist, organized (he has to be if he decides to oil himself, since he thinks people will have a tough time catching him what’s with him being slippery), high-risk offender since according to the urban legend he daringly sneaks into his victim’s house/bedroom/whatever and rapes his victim, believes he is immune to other people due to his so-called “black magic” skills – a common psychological trait among rapists because they like the idea of them being the powerful gender, always in control in the sexual act.

It is not my wish to be disrespectful to our cultural beliefs, but my point of view is if we lessen our fear towards the dark arts, our sense of justice would be a lot clearer. Why should we fear a man who rapes women and children and excuse his deviant behaviour by conjuring up a belief that he is “into black magic”? He is a criminal, he is a rapist, he is a molester – pure and simple. He is punishable by the law. There is nothing mystical about him or his behaviour. Why should we fear a man and place him in such a position that makes us believe that he is untouchable by the law and order of society? As I’ve mentioned previously, it is almost as though we are trying to excuse his aberrant behaviour. Is it any wonder why so many sexual crimes in Malaysia go on unreported? It is astounding the way we are unable to put the same amount of faith in something so physical as a heinous crime or cold hard evidence the way we fear something that is unrealistic and beyond reality.

If bomohs are truly the all-powerful beings, then they should have been able to solve at least 95% of sexual crimes that have gone unsolved for the last few decades. Who raped and murdered Audrey Melissa, for example? Anybody up for the money? Yes, I am aware that my cold statement here probably trods over a lot of twitchy toes, but I’m not sorry.

So as you can see, serial criminals are not a cultural phenomenon unique only to the Westerners.

Aaarrrgggghhh! This is giving me a headache. I feel for those police offciers trying to solve this crime. they must be under a lot of pressure. The least we can do is help them with information. But most of all, we should help ourselves and learn more about prevention. It looks like in this country, the chances of getting a child back alive after an abduction looks most grim. Thanks for that viewpoint. Gives me something to chew on, that won’t make me put on more weight for a change!

Keep well dear!

I think the one reason why Nurin was found in the bag was because the perp wanted her body to be discovered. It wasn’t for the purpose of “showing off”. I think it indicates an act of remorse. Yes, I know it sounds quite improbable, but I think it’s quite a rational explanation on his behaviour. Why stash the body in a bag and deliver it to a store? Why not ask, why didn’t he just bury the body somewhere? No one would be the wiser. Nobody knows who he is, where he lives, where did he hide Nurin… hiding the body would be easy, no one would know. No one.

Yet, he went through a great trouble stuffing her into a bag, dumped her in a shop waiting for her to be discovered. The solution I came up with was – this was his way of ensuring she would be returned to her family, as macabre as it sounds. But by taking into account that according to reports (as reported in the news that is), she had expired about 6 hours when she was found. Perhaps our perp panicked, perhaps her death was not meant to be, perhaps in his zealousness he had accidentally caused her death. Whatever it was, it indicates a less than thorough thought processing.

It was early Monday morning (or was it Tuesday?) and he had to get rid of the body. What should he do then? He was probably overcome with extreme remorse – he had taken this child away from her loving parents, possibly meant to keep her for whatever sinister games he had in mind but for a temporary period of time, and now she was dead and it all his undoing. He had to get rid of her, he must! But how? For all his sadistic behaviour, he wanted her to be returned to her rightful family. He’s probably unhinged, and this is further fueled by the unexpected death and overwhelming remorse.

So he put her into a bag and rolled over to the nearest shops. Why? Don’t ask me. But it was morning and he could not risk being seen and he must do this quickly. Would it be a wild guess if I say that he must have been to this particular shop before? It won’t be much of a surprise if it is revealed that he is already familiar with it. I think he is in fact very much familiar with this particular area. Perhaps he lives nearby. Perhaps he works nearby.

So he rode over with the bag in his lap, parked his bike, and coolly (albeit nervously) carried the bag and left it at the store, walked away and rode away. He’s done it. Someone will definitely find the body in the bag, alert the police, and the little girl will be returned to her family, for a proper burial.

It’s the very least he could do. Or so, according to the mental state in his mind.

I could be wrong.

There is usually a profile of these sorts of perps. For example, kidnap for ransom normally the perps will not harm the child and will let the parents know they have the child before the parents can contact police as they will want to negotiate ransom. They won’t risk killing the child until assured of the ransom money. Drug addicts normally commit petty crime to get money for drugs as they are too blur to plan such a big crime as abducting a child that will cry and kick up a fuss unless they are driven by demons in their minds or pushed by someone else to commit the crime for money. This case indicates an abduction by a sexual predator possibly as there is no ransom negotiation that we know of as yet. Abduction for sexual gratification usually would result in the child being released after the despicable deed is done. In Nurin’s case it was totally weird. What reason could they have for doing the twisted and deviant acts they did to her? And now Nini, missing for more than three weeks. I haven’t the slightest idea what to make of it. Maybe Munira might shed some light on this.

I’m going on a tangent now in my blog and focussing my research on prevention as those recent attempted abductions are worrying. Are they related to each other as an organised syndicate or are they opportunitistic criminals trying to cause more chaos and mocking the police. What exactly is going on here?

Take care Mary Kate and Happy Chinese New Year to you and family.

Have a good weekend, while I have some stuff to do for the coming celebration, Ninie is still on my mind. Sigh…what can we do except pray tembam? Let’s hope our faith and prayers will bring this child home safely.

Hope u r ok today.

I also wonder whether Malaysia have this kind of Unit.

I seriously hope so.

On another note, have posted another clip.