I spent some time today trying to piece together some information about the rape and murder of two young girls [step-sisters]in Belgium. Their names:
Nathalie Mahy [10]
Stacy Lemmens [7]
They went missing between 1am-3am on the Saturday 10th June at a street party with police attention being focused on a 39 year old paroled sex-offender that was seen in the same cafe the family was in.
Apparently this paroled man had been sentenced for 15 sex crimes, including one on an adult but still on parole [?]. Following the girls dissapearing he also has went missing. His girlfriend works as a waitress in a bar close to where the girls were last seen.
The mother and her boyfriend came under criticism for drinking heavily in the bar whilst the girls were outside on the street at such a late time.
Police called off an extensive search for them on Monday the 10th of June after no trace of them was found.
On Tuesday 13th the man - Abdellah Ait Oud - turned himself into authorities after seeing himself on TV.
On Thursday 15th June the police charged Oud with kidnapping the two girls.
On Wednesday June 28th at around 11am [0900 GMT] the body of Stacy was found by police under a sewer cap with Nathalies body being found later on at 3pm. Their bodies were around 600 metres from the cafe.
On Thursday 29th media reports were that the autoposy revealed they were sexually assualted and strangled. Later reports were that only Nathalie was raped.
On Saturday 1st July Nathalie Mahy was buried in a private ceremony.
On Monday 3rd July Stacy Lemmens will be buried.
DNA tests will reveal whether or not Oud, who remains in police custody was the rapist/murderer.
Why did I do this?
Because I want to know more about these girls than simply their names. Because I want to bring attention once more to the negligent parole system that has apparently once more allowed a perpetrator the freedom to rape and stangle to death two young children. Because I want to feel the tiniest bit of pain that those girls endured.
Abilene
I understand why you want to know more. I am so tired of seeing so much hype in the media about a metatarsal or a yellow card or a red card. Now dont get me wrong I am NOT anti world cup but come on, enough is enough when the front page is dominated continually by eleven men chasing a ball and yet the real news might start on about page 3 or 4.
The tragic thing ( among many ) is in a case like this it will be the sick bastards name that people will remember and the names of those two beautiful little girls will be forgotton in a matter of weeks.