Reili Huik is a 17-year-old girl from Tartu, who was looking for additional work as a babysitter after school. She was contacted by Guntars Kaziks, who claimed to live in Elva and in need of a sitter for a five-year-old girl. Reili met Kaziks on 13th of February 2006 around five p.m. near Tartu Kaubamaja. According to a witness, Reili was supposed to go on 14th of February around five or six p.m. from Tartu to Elva to meet the girl she was supposed to babysit. From this moment, Reili goes missing. Kaziksi did not actually have a child that needed babysitting.
Hopefully many people have heard this story. I am also sure many people are familiar through media with the name Guntars Kaziks. Today it is not possible to directly accuse Kaziks, who was given a long prison sentence in 2010 for raping four girls, in the disappearance of Reili, but it is also not a reason to stop asking questions about his whereabouts on 14th of February 2006 and the following night in order to find out where Kazinski was during that time and what was he doing:
Around the world, tens and tens of children go missing every day…
…children, who do not come home from school; children, who do not notice while playing that they have left their home far behind and it is suddenly getting dark; children, who get off bus at the wrong station and get lost; children, who are stopped by a car and inside there is sitting a woman with a trustworthy smile, sunglasses and a lapdog, who invites them to sit in the car and who knows the child’s mother’s name and assures them that she was the one, who had asked to pick the child up from school that day…
Today, on 16th of January 2016, Foundation Missing will launch a nationwide campaign to inform people about the alert system set up to search for the missing children.
The goal for Foundation Missing is to create a nationwide volunteer alert system for missing children that would enable to send the information about a missing child already during the first hour operatively to as many news media channels as possible across the country.
A wider-scale goal for us is to share the agreements and logistical solutions Foundation Missing has achieved with Estonian government agencies, when the state is ready to join the Europe-wide missing children alert system Amber Alert Europe http://www.amberalert.eu/
Why today?
16 years ago, on 16th of January 2000, 13 year old Katrin vanishes without a trace. She sets out at half past two from Veskiküla, a small place near Rummu in Harjumaa to visit a friend in Rummu and study for English. Her shortcut to Rummu takes her past a prison camp of Ämari. She does not make it to her friend, her case remains unsolved…
With the permission of Katrin’s mother and in line with the volunteer organisations of United States of America and the Russian Federation, we name the Estonian missing children’s alert system after a missing child named Katrin with the intent of drawing attention to a case that has remained unsolved for 16 years and in hope to receive new information that might bring clarity to the vanishing of 13 year old Katrin.
With the creation of the alert system, the great goal of Foundation Missing for the year 2016 is that no case of a missing child under the age of 18 would stay unsolved in our country.
All of us, dear friends, can help in solving missing people’s cases. One of the easiest ways to do that, is to make a donation to the search fund of Foundation Missing: Kadunud SA
EE441010220248190225 explanation: donation for the search fund.
Thank you to all of you, who are willing to help us!
Eesti
Reili Huik is a 17-year-old girl from Tartu, who was looking for additional work as a babysitter after school. She was contacted by Guntars Kaziks, who claimed to live in Elva and in need of a sitter for a five-year-old girl. Reili met Kaziks on 13th of February 2006 around five p.m. near Tartu Kaubamaja. According to a witness, Reili was supposed to go on 14th of February around five or six p.m. from Tartu to Elva to meet the girl she was supposed to babysit. From this moment, Reili goes missing. Kaziksi did not actually have a child that needed babysitting.