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Why Engeline, not Angeline
School report: A teacher shows a school report book of Engeline Margret Megawe, a student of SD Negeri 12 Sanur state elementary school, Denpasar
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School report: A teacher shows a school report book of Engeline Margret Megawe, a student of SD Negeri 12 Sanur state elementary school, Denpasar.
The murder case of an 8-year-old girl, Engeline Margret Megawe, has left many questions, not only about the culprits in her murder and the motive behind the homicide, but also the real name of the victim since different name versions circulating across the media.
Engeline was reported missing on May 16 by the adoptive family. She was spotted last time playing in front of her adoptive mother's house on Jl. Sedap Malam in Sanur, Denpasar, Bali in that afternoon.
The family distributed information via the social media, referring to the missing girl as Angeline, with the girl's adoptive sister, Christina, having created a Facebook fan page for Engeline. Since then, people as well as netizens, started using the name Angeline to attribute to the missing girl.
No explanation was immediately available on the motive behind the use of Angeline name instead of Engeline by Christina.
With some ministers and National Commission for Child Protection came into spotlight during the search of Engeline, media picked up the story, using the name of Angeline. Still, as shown in the Google Trends searches, some people have also searched using a misspelled attribution, Angelina.
Only after Engeline was found buried in the backyard of her adoptive mother's house, the media later discovered that her victim's real name as recorded in the SD 12 Sanur elementary school's document is Engeline Margret Megawe.
Meanwhile, Bali Police investigators have built the dossiers using the victim name, Engeline Margret Megawe, also referring to the school document which also mentions her adoptive mother going with the name of Margriet Magawe. (dmr)(++++)
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