Chapter 13A news article provided additional information to what the librarian had just revealed. Maleko was a bully among his peers. He had entered the yard where the new house was being built. Other boys hung out there. Maleko had already removed his shirt and playfully snapped it like a bath towel at the other boys' legs. The boys didn't like that and Maleko and one boy got into a fight. Another boy jumped into the fray and took the shirt away. Maleko snatched his shirt back and ran to his house.
When his mother found his shirt, it was torn and missing a couple of buttons. The two boys with whom Maleko fought validated his story. Because it was a missing person case, that of a little girl with Down syndrome, pleas for help from citizens were publicized immediately.
Maleko and his fami
