Abducted Girl Eulogized as ‘Child of the Nation’
A downtown church overflowed with hundreds of mourners Saturday as Amber Hagerman was eulogized as “a child of the nation,” whose abduction and murder touched millions.
The service at First United Methodist Church came a week after the 9-year-old girl was grabbed, screaming, from her bicycle. Her nude body was found in a creek late Wednesday, her throat cut. No arrests have been made.
Amber is “survived by a nation stunned and saddened and enraged that once again such unspeakable and fiendish evil has stricken one of our children,” said the Rev. Ann Stevens of the First United Methodist Church of Arlington.
President Clinton called Amber’s parents to offer his condolences.
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