Sex offenders quizzed in missing girl case

Homicide detectives have expanded their investigation into a missing Melbourne schoolgirl to include checking the alibis of 200 registered sex offenders.

Police fear 13-year-old Siriyakorn “Bung” Siriboon was abducted or killed while on her way to school on June 2, around 8.30am (AEDT).

Seven months later her unsolved disappearance remains Victoria’s most baffling of the year.

“In this day and age you would assume that we would find something to say that something’s happened to her but we haven’t been able to,” said Detective Inspector John Potter, head of the state’s homicide squad.

“It is highly unusual. These cases are so rare that a person just disappears.”

Taskforce Puma was created with a dozen detectives and a tactical intelligence officer, all tasked with determining what has happened to the teenager.

Bung was last seen by a neighbour three doors down from her house in Boronia, in Melbourne’s outer east, as she walked past on her way to school, in uniform and with a school bag.

Police say there’s no evidence that she’s engineered her own disappearance or that someone at the school is involved.

Her family has all been cleared.

Depending which way she walked to Boronia Heights College, she could have passed some 400 properties.

Neighbours have been interviewed.

Footage from CCTV cameras at nearby train stations, shopping centres, petrol stations and shops has been examined.

Her computer has been scoured for any tiny detail.

But there’s no sign of her.

The latest avenue of inquiry has taken detectives to the homes of every registered sex offender within a radius of the missing girl’s house.

So far, police have spoken with around 200 offenders in a time-consuming search of their alibis but that too has failed to generate a major lead.

Detectives have received about 500 calls to Crime Stoppers and are counting on more help from the public to solve the mystery.

“Somebody clearly knows what’s happened and we’re asking that person to ring us,” Det Insp Potter said.

“We need to find out for the sake of her parents, and her school friends, and the whole community.”

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