Missing Girl - Sharlinie

It has been more than 24 hours and she is still missing. I could not imagine what the parents are going through right now. I feel like I want to go out and search her myself. Just like Nurin's case, I begin to look at every child that passes me. At the kids school, I looked out and tried to identify any suspicious looking man or woman. Normally, I would just drive away once all the kids have gotten into the car, but today, I waited until I saw the guard asked the few remaining kids to stay inside the gate instead of outside the gate and pulled the gate closed.

I really feel that the public can do more than just praying and distributing posters. I remember a very famous case in the US many years ago when a very pregnant woman went missing. The public together with the police conducted a search surrounding her area. Her skeletons was found few KMs from the area that they conducted the search (somewhere new a lake - I could not even remember the woman's name). She was found dead but that is beside the issue. Surely we could do something like this. Except in kampung, the public participated in any missing person search is unheard of in the town area (or probably I wasn't aware of any).

I just feel so helpless.

I live in a kampung. Letting the kids play outside unsupervised is a very-very normal thing. If they are not at Cik Nab's house, they are probably at Cik Noi's house, or at Kak Jamilah's house. If I want to call them home I just have to scream "ALONG! ANGAH! Balik!". Now, I wonder if this place is still safe. The Chief police said that there is no safe place anymore. I need to educate my children and myself. We probably have to put up a play date schedule. E.g., Monday, all the kids play at my house, Wednesday at Cik Nab's house, etc. etc. Imagine that. What have we become and what is the future going to be like for our children? Sigh...