Nora Anne was abducted, family insists
PUCHONG: The family of missing Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin is resolved that the 15-year-old was abducted and “increasingly frustrated” with the Malaysian police’s tactics to find her even though the Malaysian police continued to investigate the case as a missing person case.
According to UK’s Daily Mail, Sebastien Quoirin said the family believed his daughter was taken as her room was found empty with the window open.
In a statement released yesterday, the family also said they were worried as Nora’s learning and developmental disabilities made her unlike other minors her age.
“She looks younger, she is not capable of taking care of herself and she won’t understand what is going on. She never goes anywhere by herself. We have no reason to believe she wandered off and is lost,” they said in a statement reported by the British media.
Matthew Searle from the Lucie Blackman Trust, a missing persons charity representing the family, said the Malaysian police’s approach was causing frustration as the family did not accept their theory that Nora wandered off on her own.
Searle said the family was terrified over the possibility that the police are not using all its resources for the search because of the theory.
“They know Nora and what she is capable of and don’t feel that they are being listened to.
“This is a girl who wouldn’t venture into her own garden without a family member holding her hand. They are getting increasingly frustrated and are all exhausted, having not slept a great deal.” Searle was quoted as saying.
The search-and-rescue operation has entered its fourth day and, as of yesterday, involved 159 members from various agencies.
