Girl's abduction still a mystery
Girl's abduction still a mystery
JAKARTA (JP): Gambir police in Central Jakarta are still trying to ascertain the whereabouts of a three-and-half-year girl who is believed to have been abducted by an elderly woman on Monday.
"We have identified the woman as a neighbor of the girl's family," Central Jakarta police chief Lt. Col. Murawi Effendi told The Jakarta Post yesterday.
However, his personnel have yet to find to where the woman and the girl have disappeared.
"We are watching several spots which we believe are being used by the suspect to hide," Murawi said.
Fina Fauziyah, the sixth of Sofyan and Fauzina seven children, was left alone by her mother inside the city-owned pawn shop on Jl. Abdul Muis in Tanah Abang on Monday afternoon.
Fauzina, 40, told Gambir police detectives that she had to accompany one of her daughters to the toilet and asked Fina to stay for a while in front of a shop counter.
A few minutes later, Fauzina came out of the toilet but could not find her daughter anywhere in the shop.
Several witnesses, including street sellers in front of the building, informed her that they saw Fina, wearing a red dress and black shoes, leaving with an elderly woman.
A preliminary investigation has identified the woman as a neighbor from the same area as the girl's family on Jl. Kebon Sirih Barat Dalam.
"This is not a ransom kidnapping because the girl's parents are poor, as is the suspect," Murawi deduced, after attending the opening ceremony of a two-week disciplinary course for preman in Condet, East Jakarta.
In addition to the main suspect, the Gambir police are looking for a key witness in the case, a local female fruit seller who was nowhere to be found after the incident near her stall.
"We believe she may have details of the story," said the deputy to the head of the police subprecinct, Capt. Mulyono.
Both Murawi and Mulyono said that police are still trying to determine the motive of the abduction, though theories of another insane woman as the abductor have been put forth.
They refused to comment on several rumors, saying only that the wanted suspect probably took the girl for revenge following a recent argument between the Sofyans and the suspect's family.(bsr)