Nora Quoirin
- sn pubs
- Oct 23, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 16, 2024
On the morning of the fourth of August, 2019, Nora Anne Quoirin was found missing after she and her family had checked in to The Dusun, a rainforest resort in Malaysia.
Nora Quoirin, a 15- year- old daughter of Irish-Franco parentage and reported to have learning disabilities, has been described by a family- friend as unusual for her to wander off. After her parents raised the alarm of her disappearance, police used sniffer dogs to search for the young teen. Hopes were high as they believed that she could not have gone far. However, on 6 August, when she was still not found, her family and the Lucie Blackman Trust, a British charity, suspected that it was an abduction. Although said to not have ruled out the possibility of foul play, investigators have been treating it as a missing person case. As days passed without any sign, the situation had become more urgent and both rewards, in exchange for information regarding Nora’s whereabouts, and crowdfunding pages were set up.
A few days into the search, a recording of her mother’s voice calling Nora’s name was played via loudspeakers and search teams played it on their mobile phones while making their way through the jungle. They hoped that she would hear her mother’s voice and head towards their direction.
Her parents, while understandably devastated, have expressed their gratitude to the search teams involved since their daughter’s disappearance on 10 August.
However, three days after that, a Caucasian female body had been found beside a stream, a mile away from the Dusun. The cause of death is not yet known, but it has been confirmed to be the body of young Nora Quoirin.
I personally find this situation extremely sad as she had her whole life ahead of her, but passed away so abruptly without any proper farewells from her loved ones. It also made me think about how it would be like to lose a cherished person suddenly, especially if they are still in their youth, and the heartbreak their families have to suffer through. This helped me to realise that I have to treasure the people around me more.
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