Another girl has vanished
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July 24, 2012 at 9:34am
Last week, a 17-year-old Russian girl disappeared just a day after arriving in Malta.
Now an 18-year-old Hungarian girl has vanished after living her for some months with her aunt and uncle.
You get the feeling that these are not the usual runaways, girls who have had rows with their parents, don’t go back home for a few days, and are then ‘found’.
Why does a girl disappear a day after landing here?
I fear the worst, and the worst isn’t necessarily murder.
18-year-old Agnes Revesz, out for a walk in Qawra and never returned
Polina Rahman, 17, disappeared from St Julian's at night
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White slave trafficking is the scenario that fiirst comes to mind. Alas.
I had the same discussion with a group of people yesterday.
Very perturbed and I hope my fears are not realised.
The Russian girl’s case is particularly worrying and baffling. I hope the police are running down all leads and possible exit routes from the island.
Daphne, there is also a Maltese 17 year old girl who is missing (http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120710/local/Teen-girl-missing.427921).
Three young ladies in under 14 days is too much of a coincidence. They all have the same fresh and innocent look. I suspect foul play.
[Daphne – The Maltese girl was just another ‘runaway’. She’s been found.]
I too suspect human trafficking.
There was a Ukranian girl found dead in the sea a couple of years ago and then a Bulgarian.
Yes, you mean the one who was found strangled and dumped in the sea off the Chalet at Ghar id-Dud.
That was probably a case of white-slavery, too, especially given the number of brothels/strip-clubs/massage-parlours there were in the area at the time.
Same here. Human trafficking hitting our islands.
I am really worried about this situation. I wish the police or the authorities would make a statement to reassure us that everything possible is being done to try to find these girls.
I can’t imagine the police having anything more important to do at the moment than try to find these missing girls.
I can’t understand how it’s not front page news on all the newspapers. It makes me feel like its not being taken seriously enough.
Many people still don’t know that there are two girls missing. Their posters need to be plastered all over Malta and Gozo.
Or on milk cartons.
It is a sad reflection on Malta when a post about Mintoff gets hundreds of heated comments and then 2 young girls go missing and only a handful of people comment.
There isn’t much to say, is there?
They don’t want to scare off the tourists, that’s why they are keeping it low key. Read this report:
http://ecpat.net/EI/Publications/Trafficking/Factsheet_Malta.pdf
I can’t help but think the woman are no longer in Malta and not enough is being done to find them.
My heart goes out to the parents of the missing girls.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120724/local/young-woman-found-dead-in-paceville.429979
Ms Rahman has been found dead in a garden in St Julian’s.