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Thursday September 20, 2007

‘Girl in bag not our daughter’

By JO TEH

joteh@thestar.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: The father of missing eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin is certain the little girl whose naked body was stuffed into a sports bag and left at the staircase of a shoplot in Petaling Utama is not his daughter.

“My wife and I viewed the body of the girl on Monday and she was definitely not our daughter Nurin Jazlin,” said Jazimin Abdul Jalil.

“Despite the bruises and the condition of the girl’s body, we could still confirm that she was not our little girl.

“We are her parents and only parents know best.”

Rallying the public: Jazimin (second from left) distributing posters of his missing daughter Nurin Jazlin at a shopping mall on Wednesday. With him is RHB Bank Bhd corporate communications manager Mastura Adnan (left).
His wife Norazian Bistaman said Nurin Jazlin did not have any birthmark on her left thigh as found by the police on the dead girl.

The police have taken blood samples from the parents for DNA testing in relation to the dead girl.

Nurin Jazlin went missing on Aug 20 after she went to a pasar malam near her home in Wangsa Maju on her own.

Jazimin, a taxi driver, said the family only hoped for good news now.

“We really do not want to hear bad news anymore.

“The news have been very disturbing lately and we have been getting quite a number of prank calls, too.

“When we received the news about the dead girl and were called to identify the body, we were really scared,” he added.

Jazimin also pleaded to the abductors to seek medical attention for his daughter should she fall sick.

Norazian said the family could not eat and sleep well.

Help me find Nurin: Jazshira, nine, distributing posters of her missing sister outside a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. Her family is optimistic that the eight-year-old girl will be found. — IBRAHIM MOHTAR / The Star
“We think of her all the time, especially of things that we used to do as a family.

“Nurin Jazlin was very close to us and she’d help me do house chores every day. We miss her terribly,” she said.

Nurin Jazlin is the second child of four siblings – Nurin Jazlisa, one; Nurin Jazrina, six; and Nurin Jazshira, nine.

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