Shanika Anderson - file

As part of the hunt for child killers, today THE STAR continues its series geared towards informing the public about the unsolved murders.

A reward totalling $100,000 is being offered for the arrest and charge of persons or persons responsible for the death of Shanika Anderson.

Call Crime Stop toll-free at 311. Full confidentiality will be maintained.

Shanika Anderson's death has left a huge hole in Harold Anderson's life.

The father still feels the loss of his daughter to the point that he has tried almost everything to forget about the fact that the killer has not yet been caught.

Anderson, six, was found raped and murdered in an open lot behind Manley Meadows in east Kingston last year. The girl was found a day after she was lured away from the Coronation Market by a man who promised to buy her patties. She was found with bruises to the back of the head and vagina.

Her father said nothing has so far helped him to forget Shanika's death.

"I wasn't working for a while and just to occupy my mind and try to forget about it I took a work on a garbage truck, something I haven't done in my more than 40 years alive," said Anderson.

"I think a lot of good things and a lot of evil things because I could be rubbing shoulders with the killer and eating and drinking with him and not know," Anderson said.

Anderson said the entire family has been affected one way or another.

"A who feel it knows. If I wasn't in this position I wouldn't know what someone with a similar problem was going through. It mash mi up man because mi a do my investigations an' nuh fin' nutten. Mi a fin' it hard fi jus figet bout it but it hard," he said.

Along with Anderson, THE STAR is also attempting to solve the murders of Jovaughn Williams, Sasha-Kaye Brown, Nicholas Baker, Sheneca Shakes, Shauna-Kay Legister, Oksana Douglas, Toni-Ann Thomas and Maurice Maxwell.

Jovaughn Williams was shot and killed in June 2004 along with his mother in Rose Heights, St. James. Sheneca Shakes and her friend Shauna-Kay Legister were found dead in a canefield in August last year. The youngsters were found dead a day after they went missing. A man who shot him in the head, killed Maurice Maxwell as he sat on his verandah.

Toni-Ann Thomas was murdered after gunmen sprayed her York Avenue community with bullets. Sasha-Kaye Brown was killed last year along with relatives when gunmen fired on her home and then set it on fire while Douglas was killed during a drive-by in the Olympic Gardens area in December last year. Nicholas Baker was shot dead in the Chinese Cemetery last year by men who allegedly gave him a gun to hide. The boy had reportedly taken the gun and killed a 14-year-old girl minutes before.

If you have info on the murder - Call: Crime Stop at 311