Grade 5 Child Raped and Killed in Yebyu Township

June 30, 2014

WCRP: On June 4, 2014, an eleven year-old child was raped and murdered as she walked home from school in Kalein-Aung Sub-Township, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Region. The victim’s parents and residents from the village found her dead body along the road near the child’s school in Tabhu Village, where she attended grade 5. Villagers say the girl had been raped before being murdered. The victim was from Paran Village, Yebyu Township, daughter of Nai Mine Phyu.

“[The] child went back from the school alone in the evening [of] June 4^th, and did not arrive home”, said a man from Paran Village, who found the child’s body, “Her parents were worried for her and asked some villagers to help find her. We found her body near Thar Yar Mon Village at 9am on June 5^th.”

According to an administrator from Thar Yar Mon Village, “[The] child was [found] dead in a hole and her stuff, such as a bag, umbrella, and shoes were beside her. Her shirt was lacerated and her head had been hit with a stone. The authorities took her body to the hospital in Kan Bout [where] the doctor checked her body and found that she was raped before she was killed.”

The administrator added that this is the first year the child has attended the school in Yapu. On the day of her murder, the victim’s friend went home from school by motorbike, while the victim walked back home alone. The administrator explains that, “Other students who went home by motorbike saw [the victim] alone and told her parents that she was walking. Her parents [went] to the school to pick her up, but they did not see her and [asked] some villagers [to help] find her the whole night. Unfortunately, they found her dead body the next day, in the morning around 9am, in a hole at mile 61 village.”

U Tin Win Aung, village resident who saw the victim’s body, reports that the child’s parents drop her off and pick her up every day from school. On this particular day, the parents were delayed in collecting their daughter due to work. U Tin Win Aung says that a perpetrator saw her as she walked home from school and took her, raped and killed her.

“When we found her, she was already dead in the hole,” states U Tin Win Aung, “I saw [a] beer bottle near her body also. The villagers who found her body [said] that when they saw her body, there were no clothes on her body. Then the authorities arrived and [put clothes on] the child’s body. I am so sad when I look [at] the child. Her head [was] also hit by [a] stone.”

The identity of the perpetrator is still unknown. Police from Kalein-Aung Village are currently investigating the murder to identify the culprit as quickly as possible.

Written by HURFOM · Filed Under News