Belgian sisters 'were strangled'

[Ferran]

Belgian sisters 'were strangled'

The two girls disappeared late at night during a street party

Two little Belgian girls who went missing at a street party were both strangled and the elder of them raped, unofficial post-mortem results suggest.

Newspapers reported the findings after the authorities in Liege completed examinations on the bodies of the two girls, who were step-sisters.

The bodies of Stacy Lemmens, seven, and Nathalie Mahy, 10, were found only after three weeks, near a railway line.

A suspect with paedophile convictions is in custody, but denies involvement.

Abdellah Ait Oud, a 38-year-old Moroccan, has been charged with kidnapping.

He was seen close to the step-sisters on 9 June, the day they disappeared, in the city in eastern Belgium.

He turned himself in to police two weeks ago after his details were published in the Belgian media.

The case, which has shocked Belgium, has rekindled memories of the notorious Marc Dutroux paedophile crimes.

Nation in shock

The official post-mortem results are unlikely to be released on Thursday, state prosecutor Anne Bourguignont told reporters.

In pictures: Belgium shocked

The girls' parents were informed of the results in the morning.

According to the unofficial results reported by Belgian newspapers, Nathalie was raped, and both girls strangled.

Police discovered Stacy's body under a manhole cover in scrubland beside railway lines at 1100 (0900 GMT) on Wednesday.

A short while later, Nathalie's body was discovered some 20 metres away.

Ms Bourguignont told reporters the bodies' decomposed state indicated that they had not died recently.

"The news of this discovery awakens in all of our hearts a feeling of repugnance, of sadness and impotence as well," Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said in a televised address.

"We cannot understand what drives certain people."

Mr Verhofstadt sent his condolences to the family and said priority would be given to finding the culprits.

Nathalie is due to be buried on Saturday in a private ceremony in Liege's Cointe district, and Stacy's funeral is due to take place on Monday in the city's Saint-Leonard district.

Echoes of Dutroux

Belgium was deeply shocked by the Marc Dutroux paedophile case, in which two girls from Liege disappeared in June 1995.

Their bodies were not found until a year later - in Dutroux's garden.

In 2004 Dutroux was found guilty of leading a gang that kidnapped and raped six girls in the mid-1990s, leading to the deaths of four of them.

Shocked residents of Liege's Saint Leonard neighbourhood, where the girls disappeared, are asking why it took the police so long to find the bodies.

"It's absurd that it took them more than two weeks to find them when they were so close by," Andre Deaelcominette told the French news agency, AFP.



Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5128548.stm

[Savage]

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So bottomless sad...



The war on sexualizing children must be constant.

No halfways.., the dirtintdusrty breeds distorted and
twarted minds...

Hunt down producers, users, and those that creep
the earth on others behalf.

Search the darkest corners, and cast clear light upon it.

[Llywarch Hen]

A suspect with paedophile convictions is in custody

He has prior convictions for such things.
Why wasn't he removed from society the first time [ideally by execution]?
Why is he still in Europe?

Our politicians tortured and murdered these little girls, and thousands like them.