Abducted girl

[Kell_ee001]

Originally Posted by Roberta

Would I have left them? - not if there was a babysitting service or drop in creche no. I don't think they're terrible and to blame but I do think they should have been more cautious.

My thoughts exactly.

[Pebs]

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

(don't smack me for disagreeing with you will you )

All part of a discussion, boring if we all agree

I was under the impression it was just across a road, my bad for not reading up.

Parents know their own children, I know that any of mine as three year olds would have been extremely unlikely to wake up if they were well settled (and I obviously wouldnt have gone if they weren't settled). It would take a nuclear exposion to wake them now when they're asleep, so from that point of view I would have felt reasonably happy about being over a road from them in view of the appartment with very regular checks. But I wouldn't have thought about someone getting in and taking them, it just wouldn't enter my head (and still wouldn't if I'm honest. It's a 'happens to other people' scenario and would never have crossed my mind)

[Desmo]

ran to her husband crying: "They've taken her! They've taken her!"

This is strange to me. Wouldn't a more natural reaction be "She's gone", "She's missing", "She's not in the room"?

Something is going to come to light soon enough. I'm calling shenanigans on this one.

[BBx]

I wouldn't leave my child alone anywhere...especially if we were in a restaurant eating...surely you would take the kids with you?

Then again it is easy for me to say as I am not a parent yet.

BB x

[Fayshun]

Janet thinks she's overprotective as there's very few people she will leave our two with. I don't.

Like Desmo said, I think there's more to this than we've been told

[Treefrog]

Originally Posted by harib0

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I'm with you on this one Lorraine. It's one of those situations where you have to get it right every time, the bad guys only need to get it right once to put you through hell.

[Haly]

It is odd, I'd have thought you'd say something like 'She's gone' not 'They've taken her'......but surely if you had your suspicions about something like that, you'd be even less likely to leave your child alone? :undecided:

[Admiral Huddy]

May original post was wrong. I guess there is some confusion between blame and neglect.. Are they to blame? Well no, they didn't take them. Neglect? Almost certianly.

[Lomster]

Originally Posted by harib0

with the latest developments being they are looking for two men and a woman who are reportedly driving a UK reg vehicle - seems a bit odd, maybe they had been previously threatened that someone was going to kidnap maddy, hence the "they've taken her" comments

If this is the cases then there is seriously something wrong in that they would leave the children, but on the other hand could explain why they didn't use the baby sitting service.

Just read this out to Fay and we are both confused as in yesterdays paper they said they had an e-fit of a dark skinned male and no mention of anyone else.
Due to the law over there they don't release the e-fit which is stupid if ask you me. :undecided:

I wouldn't leave my Children alone and i wouldn't have used the babysitting service i am really overprotective but at least i know my children are safe.
I only let my Mum have my Children or Fay's mum/dad.
I let my Friends daughter take Josh to the park near us but thats a 1min walk and she's 14 and very responsible.

I wouldn't even pop next door with the baby monitor on.
I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything ever happened to my Children because i didn't look after them properly

Also well spotted Desmo on the 'they've taken her' like most of you said i would have said something like Georgie/Josh have gone they aren't in their bed someones got in and taken her/him cos the windows open. Not they've taken her. I am very confused about that and the fact they think they used a uk reg car makes me very suspicious over them. I think they know more than they are letting on. :undecided:

[Roberta]

This all reminds me horribly of the Ben Needham case.

Lom, I wouldn't have used a listening device babysitting service either. A drop in creche would have been fine for me though.

I still don't trust my 14 year old to look after my 2 youngest (9 and 10). I tried that last week for an hour when I had a physio appointment and got a call saying he'd let them out to play and they'd gone missing while I was driving home. He's a bit of a drama queen because they'd only gone into the next street! I still won't trust him with them again for a good while now though.