Posts Tagged ‘North Shore’

Finally...

As the name suppression is no longer in place, I can now name the kidnapper in the Cina Ma case.

The kidnapper's name is Aaron Deng, a 25 year old real estate agent from Ray White's Pinehill branch.

What I heard is that his family is also quite wealthy and fiancially supported his study here. I understand that he's working in Ray White not because of money to support his life, but to enable him to stay here.

So I don't think he kidnapped Cina Ma for ransom. In fact, what I heard is he didn't plan to hold Cina for that long, Mr Deng just want to "give the family a warning" by hold Cina for few hours, and then release her (that's why Cina was found only a street away).

You know the rest, the police was there most of the day, and his "plan" seems to be backfired.

It is still not yet clear on what kind of dispute between those "adults" triggered the kidnap.

More on the Xin Xin Ma kidnap case.

The accused kidnapper reappeared in North Shore City District  Court today.  Nothing important, really.

However, I was expecting the name of the kidnapper being released today, but instead, the name suppression of the accused was extended to 4th August. It's a subject of huge public interest, well, at least most Chinese people I know are eager to find out the name of that guy.

Compare with other countries like America or Canada, Chinese in New Zealand is a small community, so if that real estate agent did his job well, it is likely that quite a lot of us may meet him before or knew him pretty well.

I hope the court got a good reason for the name suppression. At least now it seems that the rumours will keep flying around for another week or two. before we know the kidnapper's name.

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IUPDATE: I just obtained the personal details of the accused, including the name. However, as the suppression is still in place, I'm unable to publish all details here.

All I can say is, this case is not as simple as it may looks like.

Cina Ma found safe and well in a North Shore show home

I was absolutely excited to hear the news that Cina(Xin Xin) Ma was found in a show home just minutes away from her Albany home, around 3.15pm this afternoon.

I heard this news around 4.25pm. A friend who works in the Chinese media told me to "listen the radio at 5".

He was informed by the liaison officer that an "important news conference" on this case will be held at 5 pm. He asked what that is about, the officer refused to go into details, but simply two words: "good news".

Although the police still did not reveal too much details of the case, I understand that Cina was not physically harmed, reasonably well, just confused on what's going on around her.

Police officially announced this news at the 5pm press conference, but still refuse to disclose details such as the motive or whether a ransom demand has been made.

Cina was reunited with her family not long after the rescue.

A 25 years old Chinese national was arrested as the result of this. This man is due to appear in North Shore District Court tomorrow, where I expect more details of this kidnap should be revealed.

Anyway, I'm glad that the kid is safe, an innocent life saved.

About ... the Cina Ma kidnap case

It has been  two and half days since the kidnap and there's still no words from the kidnapper(s).

However, there are lots of rumours in the Chinese Community though.

Most people suspect that the kidnap was as the result of a "bad business deal".  This was also reported by most major media in the country.

The rumours I gathered seem to be confirming this. The parents of Cina Ma were described by many as "penny-pinching to the extreme", "cunning" or "out of all reasons" in business deals.

I don't want to go into specific examples here, as they are currently unverifiable. However,  it was said that only the new immigrants want to do business the them because they haven't experience "how bad they are".

Rumours are rumours. Even if they are all true, it would still never be accepted to me, and all good members of Asian community, that any business dispute should ever been dealt in this way.

People who commit crime on innocent children are despicable. They should not be tolerated and should receive the maximum punishment available. They are the thugs of our society we want to remove before any others.

The recent protest shows that we will not stand any crime, regardless of the ethnicity of the criminals.  We will not stand for crimes against our community.

My heart goes with the Cina and her family.  Hope we will see Cina back home soon.

...again?

A five years old girl, Cina Ma, of Chinese descendent, was abducted outside her North Shore house around 12.30pm today.

Asians were targeted in South Auckland, but now this really starts to worry me.

The abductor was masked and there was no other known witness apart from the girl's 8 years old cousin.

However, it doesn't look like the usual "gangsters" who just want some quick cash - no ransom demand, or any other kind of news regarding the girl have been made by the abductor  at all.

Ma's home is located off the main street in a new subdivision, where there is very little traffic normally; so it is quite unlikely that the abduction/kidnap is a random action. The family must been targeted for a long time.

I'll be closely monitoring the media (and the Chinese ones) in the following days.