Saturday October 23, 2010
Runaway girl returns from Lombok
By ONG HAN SEAN
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SEPANG: It was a tearful reunion for the family of a teenage girl when she returned from Indonesia after going missing for over a month. Shafika Marlina Mohd Safiee, 16, had eloped to Lombok with an Indonesian man named Misbah on Sept 4. With the aid of Putera 1Malaysia Club, she was safely escorted back to her family by club secretary-general Abdul Khalid Chairul.
Home at last: Shafikah (right) reuniting with her mother Mazanah (left) and father Mohd Safiee after arriving at the LCCT in Sepang last night. Looking on is Abdul Azeez (second from left). — Bernama
Shafika Marlina arrived at the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) last night and was met by her parents Mohd Safiee Sardi and Mazanah Abdul Latef. “I am really sorry for what I did to my parents. I missed them a lot during Hari Raya,” said Shafika Marlina. Mohd Safiee told reporters that he had dropped his daughter at Bandar Baru Teluk Intan, Perak, to pay the telephone bill on the day she went missing. She did not return from her errand.
“We received a SMS from Shafika later saying that she was in Ipoh to visit a friend who was involved in a car accident. “Afterwards, she messaged us that she could not return as her friend’s car she took a ride in had broke down,” said Mohd Safiee, who is an auxiliary policeman at the Rubana plantation in Teluk Intan. When the worried parents could not contact their daughter after her last SMS, they lodged a police report.
A few days later, they received word from their daughter that she was in Lombok with Misbah, who had worked at the same plantation as them. Putera 1Malaysia Club president Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim advised Shafika Marlina to focus on her studies now and leave romance for later. “There have been too many cases where young girls were charmed away by Indonesian men. Parents should keep a watchful eye on their daughters,” he said.
