A man accused of killing and setting fire to a teenage schoolgirl after her mum refused his marriage proposal Googled “how to rape a 15-year-old child”.
He had also searched “rape resulting in death” and “autopsy results after burning a person alive”, police investigating the brutal killing have revealed.
Victim Busra Kabatas’s charred body was found under a quilt in her bedroom after neighbours in Gebze, Turkey, raised the alarm after spotting smoke.
She had been stabbed repeatedly and then throttled before being dumped on her bed, covered with a duvet, and set on fire.
Police swiftly identified Taner Yaylaci – who had been pestering Bursa’s mother – as the prime suspect for the 15-year-old’s killing three months ago (8th October).
Investigators believe he was obsessed with mum Aylin Cetin, whom he had met at a factory they both worked at before he was fired.
Yaylaci was arrested shortly after the killing as he was getting ready to flee, and was remanded in custody.
During questioning, he reportedly admitted that he had been waiting on Aylin’s street for two days to watch her movements.
Investigators originally believed he had actually intended to kill the mother but, instead, had found her daughter at home getting ready to leave for school.
He reportedly tied up her hands and feet, stabbed her 20 times, strangled her on top of her bed, and threw a quilt on top of her.
Then, he is said to have doused the quilt with a flammable liquid he had brought with him and set it on fire.
But now it has emerged that the teenager may have been in Yaylaci’s sights all along after investigators discovered the sickening searches he had made online.
His shocking search history included “rape resulting in death”, “how to rape a 15-year-old child”, and “how to knock a person unconscious with an electroshock gun”, report local media.
He had also Googled “autopsy results after burning a person alive”, “forensic medicine practices after child sexual abuse”, “punishment for rape”, and “how many days would it take for the autopsy report to come out”.
Aylin earlier told local media: “He said he wanted to marry me, that he loved me. I told him that I couldn’t marry him because of my health problems.”
She added: “My child was killed just because I refused. I want him to be punished in the most severe way.”
Yaylaci remains in custody as the investigation continues.
Police are still waiting for the result of forensic tests to establish whether Bursa was raped.
Femicide is a growing problem in Turkey, particularly after the country officially quit the Istanbul Convention in July 2021.
According to data from the ‘Monument Counter’ – “a digital memorial for women killed by violence” – 393 women were killed by men in 2022, while 23 femicides have been committed in Turkey so far this year.
