Eight years and nearly two months.. This is the reckoning of the years since the absence of the five-year-old child, Muhammad, from his mother’s sight, since he went out, as usual, to play with his peers in the street near his family’s house, as is the custom of villagers. But the mother’s heart has another time, which does not count the years or months. Not by days, not even by hours, but he measures absence with tingles of despair and scorpions of eagerness.
There was nothing to worry about, as the people of Kafr al-Arab village in Faraskour Center in Damietta governorate lived as one family, so no one would be left behind in disbelief when the sad news of the loss of the child Muhammad spread. And everyone kept looking for him everywhere, but as long as the sun had set today and the night passed without anyone returning or finding him or anyone bringing certain news about him, it is likely that someone hated him, killing or kidnapping.
Days and years passed, and the absence of the child turned into a memory that causes anxiety every now and then in the hearts of mothers and causes grief to all the inhabitants of Kufr.
-But what brought back the memory to become panic, is what the contractor found, who used the owner of a house under construction, to finish it to prepare it for housing after he left it for many years without completing it, so when the contractor arrived at one of the rooms on the third floor to work in it, he noticed that a pile of waste, sand and dust inside The room, from which something fishy sticks out. As soon as he removed the rubble, his face showed signs of panic because he had found a small skeleton inside a child’s clothes. It was not likely that this small skeleton was for the child Muhammad, who had been missing for eight years, specifically in April 2015, and did not require much effort, since only a child has been absent since then. And here is the frightening certainty that comes with his parents knowing him, because the clothes that cover the skeleton are the same clothes that he was wearing when he left his house on the fateful day of his loss. Sorrows arose again in everyone’s hearts when the news spread that Muhammad al-Barbari had been found, a small pile of bones buried in a large pile of construction waste. This was the task of the Damietta Investigation Department to find the perpetrator. The conscience of Kafr al-Arab, and indeed of the entire Faraskour Center, will not calm down until the murderer is arrested.
-And it was that the efforts of the research team reached a notorious person who used to assault children after luring them to remote places, and he is a neighbor of the Barbari family. However, that human devil directed the child to this empty house, to assault him, so he began to resist him by screaming at the top of his voice, crying out for help, and he was afraid that the screaming would draw the attention of one of the parents, so he only fell with his palm on the child’s mouth, and with the other hand he plunged a knife into his heart The little boy died instantly, so the killer buried him in a pile of sand, as is the custom of any professional criminal. He searched for the child after discovering his absence, pretending to share with his family, which was terrified by the absence of the apple of its eye. The human devil confessed the details of his crime and represented them before the prosecution, which decided to imprison him.
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