Murder of Nurin Jazlin
killed in 2007 in Malaysia
Nurin Jazlin Binti Jazimin (11 September 1999 – 16 September 2007) was an eight-year-old Malaysian murder victim, who was originally reported missing after she had gone to a night market near her house in Section 1, Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur to buy a hair clip on the night of 16 August 2007. Her parents filed a missing person report with the police and a search for her was undertaken in the subsequent weeks by several organisations, including the news media and NGOs. Police were able to find footage from a nearby CCTV camera, showing her being dragged into a white van the night she went missing. Her murder has not yet been solved.
Discovery and identification
On the morning of 17 September 2007, a brand-new gym bag was left in front of a shop lot in PJS 1/48, Petaling Jaya, discovered by the shop owner. It contained an unidentified child's naked body which had been stuffed in the fetal position; police believed that she had been dead for more than six hours before the discovery. A cucumber and a brinjal were found stuffed inside her genitals and had caused her rectum to rupture. It was determined that bacterial infection had contributed to her death.
At the time, Nurin Jazlin's parents were not able to identify the body as their daughter's due to the changes in her physical features; it was even suggested that the child might be a foreigner, as she lacked the scar which would be caused by the mandatory BCG vaccination against tuberculosis. Her parents initially maintained hope that their daughter might be alive and were the victims of several prank calls from people claiming that Nurin was under their care.
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