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149831
Sun, 11/14/2010 - 19:46
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Zahra's mum tells of her anguish
Zahra Baker's Australian birth mother says she has been "crushed" by the mystery
surrounding her daughter's death.
Emily Dietrich has gone to Hickory in North Carolina where US police have found
bones they've confirmed are her missing 10-year-old daughter Zahra Baker.
North Carolina police have been looking for the young girl - who lost part of a leg
to bone cancer five years ago - since her father Adam Baker and stepmother Elisa
Baker reported her missing on October 9.
"Still hurt, still crushed," Ms Dietrich told the Seven Network from Hickory, North
Carolina, on Sunday.
"It didn't make a difference trying to prepare myself it didn't make a difference to
anybody.
"As hard as it was to hear the news they were telling me it was just as hard to
watch them cry while they told me and apologised to me. All they wanted was to find
her and bring her back alive."
But that wasn't going to happen.
"I have to take a step back and think of the possibility that maybe Adam wasn't
involved and maybe he is hurting as well.
"I can't even attempt to guess the type of anger that's going to come out of me when
we find out."