The grandmother of the recently murdered 5-year-old Ingrid Maasdorp has expressed dismay over the lack of support the family received from the government and the police after the disappearance of the Grade Zero learner at Okahandja.

Ingrid disappeared from the school grounds on March 20, and she was found in a pool of water the following day.

The autopsy report later revealed that she was raped and strangled.

Ingrid was Dolly Maasdorp's only granddaughter; she affectionately called her Butterfly.

Maasdorp says she relives the pain every time she sees Ingrid's age mates in their school uniforms.

Her pain was exacerbated, and questions lingered when six-year-old Roswind Fabianus and Beyonce !Kharuxas were also found murdered.

She questioned why it had to take two more deaths for the government to act, let alone lend a helping hand.

Ingrid's school, her pastor, and the immediate community in Okahandja had supported her for the burial.

"Utaara Mootu took care of transport fees for Ingrid's mother after she organised the candlelight vigil; she paid for everything, and we borrowed money and added it to what was collected from schools. Now, to see how ministers react to the second and third incidents breaks my heart. What is the difference? They reached out to other parents but not to us."

The 54-year-old also bemoaned the actions by the police at Okahandja.

Maasdorp says that the information they have is that Ingrid was taken from school by a woman.

Because of Ingrid's age, they went to report her to the police as a missing person.

"The police just looked at us; they did not respond to us. It was a constable who later came to me and said I must send a picture; no police came to our house; only after eight o'clock at night did another constable come."

The hope right now is that Maasdorp does not become another case docket gathering dust in the files of investigating officers.

Maasdorp's nightmare started on March 20th.

Ingrid's grandfather took her to school that morning just before seven o'clock, and that would be the last time her grandmother saw her.

This was because the information that there was no school that day due to independence celebration preparations never reached Grade Zero learners.

When her grandfather went back to school to pick her up, she was nowhere to be seen, and what followed was the beginning of a nightmare.

"She just went to school and never came back; we just found the body the next day."

The five-year-old has joined the list of names such as Avihe Ujahaa, Magdalena Stoffels and Oswyn Myne Seibeb, who were all murdered in the most unspeakable manner.

To date, no suspect or suspects have been named nor arrests effected.