Of Beasts and Monsters

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Excerpt from The Star : Monday January 16, 2006

Evening jog turned fatal for 25-year-old

By TUNKU SHAHARIAH

SUNGAI PETANI: An evening jog in the neighbourhood turned fatal for a 25-year-old marketing executive.

Choo Gaik Yap, who was jogging in Taman Ria Jaya around 6pm last Saturday, was found dead less than nine hours later. She had been raped and brutally stabbed.

Her half-naked body was found sprawled on the ground, about 200m from the housing area, at 2.35am yesterday.

Choo: Went jogging around 6pm last Saturday and was found dead less than nine hours later

It is believed the victim, a Universiti Utara Malaysia graduate, could have been tailed by her assailant, kidnapped and taken elsewhere to be raped and killed before her body was dumped near the housing estate.

Kuala Muda OCPD Assistant Commissioner Law Hong Soon said police were investigating the case under Section 376 and 302 of the Penal Code for rape and murder respectively.

Police recovered a pair of blood-stained jogging shoes beside Choo's body.

It is believed earth found on the soles of the shoes matched soil from another residential area, about 500m away.

Choo's body was sent to the Sungai Petani Hospital mortuary after the Alor Star's police forensic unit arrived at about 4am yesterday.

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I grew up watching TV shows of Ultraman battling monsters, Superman fighting super-criminals and a host of other super heroes who fights all sorts of baddies that come is all sorts of shapes and sizes. But none of those so-called monsters can ever match the evil of rapists cum murderers.

The pain is felt by all, even if we do not know her. Are we not all of flesh and blood pumped by a heart that stretches its emotions to bind the world in humanity? Apparently not, for there are true monsters that walks among us disguised in mortal form.