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supervisor's two teenage boys are the true offenders, with the suspected driver serving as a scapegoat. Nonetheless, authorities maintained that the driver was the only likely culprit in the case and denied that the two teenage brothers were the perpetrators. The brothers, whose father is a police lieutenant, were not called as witnesses in court. According to legal counsel Khin Maung Myint, who has been closely following the case, the truth has not come out because those in charge of the investigation have failed to execute their obligations.
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that when he showed her the CCTV footage from outside the nursery, she pointed out the man who assaulted her, saying, "Ko Ko did it at school," using the colloquial
Burmese name for a young man. Based on the allegations of the victim and her parents, most members of the public appear to believe the
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December, citing insufficient evidence. The accused was the Wisdom Hill school supervisor's driver. However, DNA evidence has been inconclusive, and nursery staff
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Naypyidaw following the case. Win Ko Ko Thein, a senior official at the Ministry of Health and Sports, launched a "Justice for Victoria" campaign two weeks later, outlining the case's alleged discrepancies. He was detained and charged with defamation. Many
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profile pictures to a silhouette of a little girl with the title "Justice for
Victoria" to demand justice be served in the case. Rising public pressure on social media forced the government to pledge that the case would be resolved in a timely manner.
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wider protests in response to the girl's father speaking to local media and venting his anger at the progress of the inquiry. Many people in
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